A Florida court has ordered Mexico’s former chief of public security to pay nearly $748 million to his home country for his alleged participation in government corruption. The Mexican government initiated the legal lawsuit in September 2021, and Thursday’s verdict ended it.
The investigation focused on Genaro Garcia Luna, Mexico’s security head from 2006 until 2012. Garcia Luna is presently doing more than 38 years in a US jail after allegedly taking millions of dollars in bribes from the Sinaloa cartel.
The Mexican government claims Garcia Luna misappropriated millions in taxpayer cash and has promised to seek compensation by filing a judicial lawsuit in Miami, Florida, where part of the criminal activities occurred.
On Thursday, Miami-Dade County Judge Lisa Walsh ordered Garcia Luna and his wife, Linda Cristina Pereyra, to pay a total of $1.7 billion, which approached $2.4 billion overall.
In its first 2021 lawsuit, the Mexican government, led at the time by former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, accused Garcia Luna, his wife, and its co-defendants of having “concealed funds stolen from the government” and smuggled them to Barbados and the United States.
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