The sentence of Genaro García Luna was postponed again after being convicted in USA by drug trafficking; This is the fifth time that the date has been modified to announce the time that García Luna will spend in prison.
On February 21, 2023, the Federal Court for the Eastern District of Brooklyn, in New York, United States, found guilty Genaro García Luna for five charges related to drug trafficking and false statements before a court in that country.
However, Judge Brian Cogan has postponed the Genaro García Luna’s sentence has been postponed on five occasions for the following charges:
- Participate in an ongoing criminal enterprise
- Conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute cocaine
- Conspiracy to import cocaine
- International distribution of cocaine
- Make false statements
Genaro García Luna: The United States postpones his sentence until October 16
Genaro García Luna will hear his sentence in the United States on October 16, 2024after a fifth postponement in that regard by the Federal Court of the Eastern District of Brooklyn, in New York; The reasons for this decision are unknown.
In this context, the prosecution requested a sentence of life sentence and the payment of a fine of at least 5 million dollarswhile García Luna’s defense proposed a sentence of 20 years in prisonin relation to the equivalent time he worked as a public official.
These are the other four dates that the United States has established to make known the penalty:
- June 27, 2023
- March 3, 2024
- June 6, 2024
- October 9, 2024
Who is Genaro García Luna?
Genaro García Luna He was Secretary of Public Security during the mandate of the former PAN member Felipe Calderonwho assumed the Presidency of the Republic after the 2006 fraud that generated political instability in Mexico, since he himself Felipe Calderón could not carry out the inauguration ceremony in the Congress of the Union before the opposition took over the platform.
This instability generated a strategy on the part of the government, the so-called “War on drug trafficking” led by Genaro García Luna as head of the Ministry of Public Security, where he was considered as the “super policeman” of said administration.
However, current events reveal that This was all part of a setup.since Genaro García Luna is currently awaiting sentencing in the United States for accepting bribes to facilitate and profit from the activities of the Sinaloa Cartel.
2024-10-02 17:49:27