Genaro García Luna, previously a high -ranking government official, is serving a 38 -year sentence for acceptance bribes.
A Florida court ordered the former Public Security Chief of Mexico to pay more than $ 748 million to his country of origin for his alleged participation in government corruption.
Thursday’s ruling closed a civil case presented for the first time in September 2021 by the Mexican government.
The case focused on Genaro García Luna, who served as Chief of Security of Mexico from 2006 to 2012. García Luna is currently being more than 38 years in a prison in the United States for allegedly accepting millions of dollars of dollars of dollars.
The Mexican government alleges that García Luna also stole millions in taxpayers’ funds, and has pledged to seek restitution, modelingly by presenting a legal complaint in Miami, Florida, where it is touched in some of the illegal activities.
On Thursday, Judge Lisa Walsh in Miami-Dade County not only required García Luna to pay millions, but also ordered her wife, Linda Cristina Pereyra, to pay $ 1.7 billion. In total, the total approached $ 2.4 billion.
In his initial complaint of 2021, the Mexican government directed at that time by former Andres Manuel López Obrado, accused of García Luna, his wife and his coacked of having “hidden government stolen funds” and U and Smugging.
“Under the direction of the defendant García Luna, the funds illegal tasks of the Government of Mexico were used to build an empire that is tuned with money,” the complaint wrote.
He claimed that these funds were used to finance “luxurious lifestyles” for García Luna and their conspirators, including real estate holdings, old bank accounts and cars, including Mustangs of the sixties and seventies.
Separately, García Luna faced criminal charges for corruption, with the US authorities who accused or packed millions while they were in office for working on behalf of the Sinaloa cartel.
Through his work with the Federal Police of Mexico and, as head of security, American prosecutors say that García Luna agreed to the information that later used to advance in the Sinalo poster, letting them know about the investigation and movements of rival criminal groups.
García Luna was also accused of helping the poster move their cocaine shipments to destinations such as the United States, sometimes using the Federal Police of Mexico as bodyguards, and even allowing the members of the poster to use official uniforms.
In return, prosecutors say that the poster left money in the hiding places, one of which was a French restaurant on the other side of the United States Embassy Street in Mexico City. Some cash packages, sacrificed at $ 100, totaled up to $ 10,000.
After leaving office in 2012, García Luna moved to the United States. He declared himself innocent of the charges against him. His defense lawyers have described him as a successful businessman who lives in Florida.
But in February 2023, a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, condemned García Luna for drug -related positions, including the international conspiracy of cocaine and conspiracy to import cocaine. The following year, in October, he was sentenced to decades in prison.
However, the Mexican government alleged in its civil lawsuit that García Luna also led a “government contracting scheme” that included offers and striking disorders discouragement as a form of money laundering.
These contracts included agreements for surveillance and communications equipment. The Associated Press news agency reported that one of those contracts was falsified and others were inflated.
García Luna is the highest level Mexican government official who will be convicted in the United States.
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