Genaro García Luna entered the maximum security prison of Lee, Virginiawhere he will be 28 years after being found guilty of links to drug trafficking.
The above, after a review at Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP for its acronym in English) in which his file indicates that he is in the High Security Prison located in Pennigton, Gap.
7 days ago, the former Secretary of Security of Felipe Calderon was transferred from Brooklyn Detention Center, New York al Oklahoma Federal Transfer Center and, in his file BOP the date of completion of his sentence appeared for the first time, August 8, 2052which is equivalent to 336 months, when, on October 17, the judge Brian Cogan sentenced him to 460 months behind bars.
The former right-hand man of former President Calderón was sentenced on October 16 to more than 38 years in prison by Judge Brian Cogan.
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That day, after almost 2 years of being found guilty by a jury in the United States, Judge Brian Cogan imposed the sentence on him in the Eastern Court of Brooklyn, New York.
Genaro García Luna, first convicted Secretary of State
With this, García Luna became the first secretary of State of Mexico convicted in the US for being part of a drug trafficking network, before him, only politicians such as former governors have been sentenced Mario Villanueva o Thomas Yarrington.
What was dictated by Cogan – a judge considered implacable in his sentences – echoes what was declared by Breon Peace, prosecutor of the Eastern District of New York after the jury found the “former super cop” guilty:
“García Luna, who once stood at the pinnacle of law enforcement in Mexico, will now live out the rest of his days, having been revealed as a traitor to his country and to the honest members of law enforcement who risked their lives to dismantle drug cartels.”
At the time, Peace said that Calderón’s former right-hand man betrayed his duty as Secretary of Public Security by accepting millions of dollars in bribes:
“Stained by the blood of the Cartel wars and drug-related battles on the streets of the United States and Mexico, in exchange for protecting those murderers and traffickers that he solemnly swore to investigate.”
Luna’s links to drug trafficking
Genaro García Luna’s links were pointed out by Opposition politicians and journalists during his administration with a security official, but they gained greater relevance in 2018 when, during the trial against “El Chapo” Guzmán, “The King” Zambada was questioned by the Prosecutor’s Office about the bribes that his brother, “The May” handed over to former anti-drug czar Felipe Calderón.
The following year, an investigation against him was reactivated, which led to his arrest on December 9 of 2019 in Texas.
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During his trial, the US Prosecutor’s Office presented the network of complicities that García Luna wove with senior drug trafficking bosses while he was Secretary of State. Throughout the process against him, García Luna has maintained, in writing, that it is a exemplary person and that the accusations against him “are out of reality.”
García Luna and his defense even tried to bring the accusations against him to former President López Obrador, but the strategy during the trial did not work for them. In addition, they tried on several occasions to have a new process opened, which also did not bear fruit.
In October, after 1 year and 8 months, the sentence was handed down after finding him guilty of the following charges:
- Heading a criminal enterprise (links to the Sinaloa Cartel)
- Conspiracy to distribute drugs (cocaine)
- Conspiracy to distribute and possess drugs (cocaine) for distribution in the United States
- Conspiracy to import drugs into the US (cocaine)
- Giving false testimony to the authorities when applying for nationality
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