New York. – US prosecutors accusing drug trafficking to the former Minister of Public Security of Mexico, Genaro Garcia Luna, said Monday that they handed the former official’s lawyer documents from the Mexican and Panamanian police about him, recordings of calls from prison and documents from the Mexican government related to a seizure in their country.
The evidence is part of the massive body of evidence that prosecutors from the Eastern District of New York delivered to Garcia Luna’s attorney for months ahead of his New York trial. The Mexican is charged with three counts of criminal association for him cocaine trade and from false testimony
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García Luna, who was Secretary of Public Security under the former president’s government from late 2006 to 2012 Felipe Calderon, has pleaded not guilty to the accusations of the prosecutors, who allege he received huge sums from the Joaquín cartel “El Chapo” Guzmán in exchange for enabling him to trade cocaine at his leisure.
Monday’s letter from prosecutors to the defense of García Luna is in the electronic system of the country’s federal courts and is a public document. In addition to other evidence in the case, prosecutors also state that they provided photos, videos, parts of a book, photocopies of García Luna’s passport and a letter from the former official and its translation into English.
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The US government has produced more than 974,000 documents, including evidence against García Luna and intercepted communications.
In 2012, the former official left Mexico and moved to Miami. There he became a permanent resident of the United States and applied for United States citizenship in 2018. He was arrested in 2019 and has been held in New York ever since.}
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