Genaro García Luna

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Genaro Garcia Luna with US Attorney General James Cole

Genaro García Luna (born July 10, 1968 in Mexico City ) is a Mexican politician and former intelligence officer. In December 2019, Luna was arrested in Dallas, Texas and charged with drug trafficking conspiracy.

biography

García Luna completed an engineering degree at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and graduated in strategic planning from the Faculty of Economics and Administration of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He graduated from the United States with a law degree .

From 1989 to 1998 he worked for the Mexican secret service CISEN , where he had numerous functions. Subsequently, he was the main coordinator for intelligence prevention at the Policía Federal Preventiva (Preventive Federal Police) until 2000 , from 2000 director general for planning and operations and from 2001 first director general of the then newly founded Agencia Federal de Investigaciones (AFI) of the Procuraduría General de la República . He held this office until 2006.

In December of the same year he became Secretary of Homeland Security in Felipe Calderón Hinojosa's cabinet and head of the Secretaría de Seguridad Pública (SSP). He was one of the highest officials of the Mexican security authorities in the drug war in Mexico and remained in this office until the end of November 2012. Just one month after taking office, the new President Enrique Peña Nieto dissolved the SSP and transferred his duties to the Ministry of the Interior.

García Luna has received several awards for his intelligence and police activities. On the other hand, he was accused from various quarters of having connections with Mexican drug cartels and of having accepted bribes. The Mexican journalist Anabel Hernández and the drug lord Edgar Valdez Villarreal (alias El Barbie ), who was arrested in 2010, made such allegations . The Forbes Magazine took him in 2013 to the list of the ten korruptesten people in Mexico. García Luna promptly denied this assessment in a published letter to Steve Forbes .

On April 9, 2015, Genaro Garcia Luna was nominated for election to the supervisory board (member of the board) of SecureAlert, Inc., a company based in Utah (USA) that operates in the field of electronic convict monitoring (electronic ankle cuffs) . SecureAlert, Inc., is majority-controlled by Sapinda Asia, Ltd. and Lars Windhorst , who hold 51.6% of the shares in the company SecureAlert. Inc. hold.

On December 10, 2019, Genaro Luna was arrested in Dallas, Texas and shortly afterwards charged with conspiracy to trade cocaine and false testimony. He is accused of having sponsored the Sinaloa cartel during his tenure in the Mexican security apparatus and of receiving several million dollars in bribes in return . The allegations became known in the course of the trial against the former drug lord Joaquín Guzmán in New York . Several witnesses had incriminated Luna accordingly. Luna had subsequently denied the allegations. The trial against him should also take place in New York and could result in life imprisonment.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Perfil: Genero García Luna. El Universal, November 30, 2006, accessed August 19, 2014 .
  2. ^ Daniel Kurtz-Phelan: The Long War of Genaro García Luna. New York Times Magazine, July 13, 2008, accessed August 19, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Klaus Ehringfeld: FR interview with the author Anabel Hernández: On the side of the cartel. FrankfurterRundschau, June 17, 2011, accessed on August 19, 2014 .
  4. ↑ David Luhnow and Jose de Cordoba: Mexican drug lord takes out against Prime. The Wall Street Journal International, November 29, 2012, accessed August 19, 2014 .
  5. ^ A b The 10 Most Corrupt Mexicans Of 2013. Forbes, December 16, 2013, accessed August 19, 2014 (addendum of December 18, 2013).
  6. ↑ Secure Alert, Inc .: Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section 14 (a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 . Archived from the original on May 8, 2015. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
  7. ↑ SecureAlert, Inc .: Form 8-K, Amendment No. 1 . Archived from the original on May 8, 2015. Retrieved May 8, 2015.
  8. ^ Alleged bribery by "El Chapo": ex-minister of Mexico arrested. Editorial network Germany, December 10, 2019, accessed on December 10, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME García Luna, Genaro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mexican politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Mexico city