After learning about the 38-year sentence that the former Secretary of Security received in the 2006-2012 six-year term, the federal deputy Ricardo Mejía Berdeja (PT) demanded that it must now be investigated the former president Felipe Calderon.
“This reflects the decomposition and surely today Felipe Calderón will have a lot to say (…) no one believes that he was not aware of what the Secretary of Security was doing. Felipe Calderón must be investigated,” said the PT.
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The former undersecretary of Public Security in the last six-year term signed that García Luna also has proceedings in Mexico, “he was investigated for abuse of powers, for illicit enrichment, among other crimes.”
However, he continued, the criminal proceedings In the United States they advanced faster, he was arrested at the time there, and the US authorities not only filed trials, but sentences.
“Assuming without granting that the 38 years were exhausted, he still has pending proceedings. Here in Mexico there have been cases where, due to pre-release measures or procedural benefits, the prosecutor’s offices manage to get them released early.
“I have seen how some of them handed them over in Mexico and, immediately, they were detained because they had pending processes here,” said the legislator.
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He added that the PT parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies He agrees with the sentence, although they expected it to be a life sentence, “but I think it is a penalty that reflects what we have said here, the great decomposition.”
“You will remember when we discussed the issue of the National Guard; “We said that we did not want this body to decompose as it did during the time of Calderón and García Luna, the then Federal Police,” commented Mejía Berdeja.
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