Mexico’s president says he hopes a former Mexican official convicted of drug trafficking and corruption in the United States will become an informant.
Genaro Garcia Luna has been convictedin a New York federal court for taking enormous bribes to protect Mexico’s drug cartels, first while he served as head of Mexico’s federal police and later as security secretary.
He’s the highest ranking Mexican official to be tried in the U.S., and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador says he hopes Garcia Luna will work with prosecutors to implicate other Mexican officials.
During a press conference Wednesday, López Obrador said that for the good of Mexico, Garcia Luna should offer information about whether he took orders from or passed information to ex-Presidents Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon. He also wants him to reveal any U.S. officials who knew about the corrupt schemes.
Garcia Luna is set to be sentenced in June and could face life in prison.
