Heavy bell for former Mexican minister – is obliged to pay 2.4 billion in the country for corruption scandal

Henaro Garcia Luna, a former Mexican Minister of Public Security, who is already serving a US imprisonment in the US for drug trafficking cases, was sentenced by a court in Florida to pay a fine of $ 2.4 billion due to his involvement. The Mexican authorities had filed a lawsuit and lawsuit in September 2021 against former Minister Garcia Luna – in addition to the US in the US – also named his wife, Linda Christina Pereira. They accused the couple of creating a “corruption and money laundering circuit” and abused dozens of public procurement. The amount awarded “equals three times the amount for which the Mexican government had initially brought the lawsuit” under Florida’s law, the Financial (Ministry) Finance Information Information Unit said in a statement. According to the same source, the former minister is obliged to pay $ 748 million, […]
Source: News Beast

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