A US courtroom condemns Garcia Luna and his spouse to pay $ 2.5 billion to Mexico | EUROtoday

The American decide Lisa Walsh has condemned Genaro García Luna and her spouse, Cristina Pereyra, to pay the Mexican authorities nearly 2.5 billion {dollars}. The Judgment of the Civil Court of Miami, in Florida, is a good triumph for the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), which has been since 2021 behind the fortune that the previous Secretary of Public Security kneaded with a scheme of corruption and millionaire diversions of public funds.

The FIU is partying. After a judicial persecution of greater than 5 years, the anti -ilavado arm of the Mexican authorities has made an American courtroom drive García Luna to return, in triplicate, the cash that’s presumed to be stolen to the nation’s funds. The FIU demanded the previous Secretary 250 million {dollars} and the courtroom of the tenth judicial circuit of Miami Dade has sentenced him to pay 750. similar dynamics for Pereyra, the unit claimed the spouse 580 million {dollars} and the decide has condemned her to return 1,740 million.

The sentence has been issued with out trial, since neither defendants has been current within the course of. In the case of García Luna, he collects the answer, “he has not submitted or notified any document in response to the lawsuit as required by law.” The one who was the safety tsar of President Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) was convicted of the New York Court in October final 12 months and sentenced to 38 years in jail for drug trafficking and crime organized for having collaborated for twenty years with the Sinaloa cartel.

His spouse, however, started answering the demand of the Mexican authorities. He ran out of protection in July 2023 and the Court assumed that he was going to characterize herself, nonetheless, she not answered or undergo the hearings. Currently, Pereyra’s whereabouts usually are not recognized. Consequently, and given the contempt, the decide has decreed the top of the judicial course of and the sentence towards each.

“The sentence is consistent with 7 guilt resolutions issued and previously executed against García Luna, his wife and 5 companies as a result of his omission to attend the trial,” the Mexican Finance Secretariat mentioned Tuesday. The company defined that, beforehand, the Government of Mexico has obtained the cost of two.7 million {dollars}, following the execution of different sentences throughout the similar trial. These assets correspond to property of the Facade Delta Integrator LLC, to the transmission of a property and the expiration of a mortgage. “The recovered liquid resources were immediately admitted to the Treasury of the Federation, while the real estate is under the administration of the Government of Mexico for sale,” mentioned the company.

The authorized technique undertaken by the Government has been disruptive: it’s the first time that Mexico, as a State, claims the best over a private fortune constructed from looting to the treasury. The first lawsuit was filed when the pinnacle of the FIU was Santiago Nieto, throughout the six -year interval of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. After the departure of grandson from the Anti -Red Unit, his successor, Pablo Gómez, gave continuity to the authorized useful resource.

According to the lawsuit, García Luna kneaded $ 745.4 million from 30 contracts simulated with the Federal Police, the Ministry of the Interior and the Prosecutor’s Office of Mexico City between 2009 and 2018. The looting interval covers the sexennia of Felipe Calderón (PAN) and Enrique Peña Nieto (PRI). During the primary six -year interval, García Luna was a part of the general public administration; At the top of Calderonism, he bought his providers as “advisor and businessman.”

More than half of the whole – 427.6 million {dollars} – corresponds to deviations from Government between 2013 and 2018, on the time when its head was Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, one in every of Peña Nieto’s sturdy males. Particularly, the contracts had been awarded from the Cisen, the intelligence and espionage physique of the Mexican authorities, and the course that manages the federal prisons (OADPRS), each models below the command of Osorio Chong. Contracts from the Interior had diverse functions: the alleged acquisition of “special communication teams”, the creation of a “National Security Platform”, the acquisition of jail expertise or a generic “equipment expansion”. For the FIU, all had been simulated hiring.

The deviations to García Luna and his testaferros additionally embrace a contract from the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office (previously Attorney General’s Office) of October 2017 for 1.5 million {dollars}, when the individual answerable for the establishment was Edmundo Garrido Osorio, and the pinnacle of presidency of the capital was Miguel Ángel Mancera. The remainder of the deviations occurred between 2009 and 2012, when García Luna was nonetheless in features of Public Secretary of the Government of Calderón. In that interval, the nonetheless official benefited from 10 contracts simulated for 316.6 million {dollars} from the Federal Police (company that was finally lacking) and likewise the jail administrator physique.

The cash, in line with the demand for the FIU, was transferred to accounts of the Glac Security Consulting corporations, of which García Luna was straight owned; Nunvav Inc. and Nunvav Technologies, each based mostly in Panama, owned by entrepreneurs – socio and testaferros of the previous official – Mauricio Samuel Weinberg López, Jonathan Alexis Weinberg Pinto and Natan Wancier Taub; and Nice Systems Ltd, an Israeli firm that supposedly paid bribes to García Luna and the Weimberg by financial institution accounts in Barbados, the place it was despatched to the US already Israel.

The demand of the Mexican authorities considers complicit to García Luna’s spouse; José Francisco Niembro González, former Subsecretary of Information Technologies of the Ministry of Security, and his spouse, Martha Virginia Nieto Guerrero; in addition to Samuel Weinberg’s spouse, Sylvia Donna Pinto. The grievance additionally features a fifty corporations accused of taking part within the diversion and bleaching scheme of property in Mexico, the USA and Panama.