While the defense of former Secretary of SecurityGenaro García Luna seeks at all costs that the punishment be 30 years in prison, the United States Attorney’s Office has requested to Judge Brian Cogan life imprisonment.
The former Secretary of Security was found guilty of five charges related to conspiring with the Sinaloa Cartel for lying to US authorities and trafficking cocaine.
In addition, there are three arrest warrants pending in Mexico for charges related to Fast and Furious case (for which weapons entered the country), in addition to property damage in the construction of prisons for more than 64 billion pesos, as well as fraud in the equipment of prisons totaling more than 5 billion.
According to a letter presented by the defense, headed by César de Castro, the US prosecutor’s office seeks to establish level 43, the highest in the justice of the United States, the offense committed by García Luna, which implies that Judge Cogan should sentence the Mexican to life in prison.
For now, the group of lawyers of the former secretary of Security, He seeks to postpone the ruling of June 24 next to September, and has also presented various arguments explaining that the level of the offense must be reduced to 42, which would give the judge the possibility of sentencing him to 30 years.
Among the arguments presented by Castro is that no acts of criminality were demonstrated by Garcia LunaFurthermore, he never met with the Sinaloa Cartel nor any other criminal group and that it did not try to obstruct justice, nor did it provide protection to Joaquín Guzmán’s group.
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