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U.S. indictment charges Mexican ex-governor with drug smuggling
Source: Reuters
U.S. indictment charges Mexican ex-governor with drug smuggling
BY JARED TAYLOR
Mon Dec 2, 2013 7:18pm EST
(Reuters) - A federal grand jury in Texas has charged a former governor in Mexico's ruling party with drug smuggling, bank fraud, racketeering, money laundering and working with drug cartels, according to an indictment unsealed on Monday.
Tomas Yarrington, ex-governor of Tamaulipas state, on Mexico's northeastern border with Texas, took millions of dollars in bribes from the Gulf Cartel and other traffickers, said the indictment, which was returned by the grand jury in Brownsville, Texas.
He is the third former politician in President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to be federally indicted in southern Texas in less than a week.
Yarrington, 56, who was governor of Tamaulipas between 1999 and 2005, has been at the center of criminal allegations since last year.
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BY JARED TAYLOR
Mon Dec 2, 2013 7:18pm EST
(Reuters) - A federal grand jury in Texas has charged a former governor in Mexico's ruling party with drug smuggling, bank fraud, racketeering, money laundering and working with drug cartels, according to an indictment unsealed on Monday.
Tomas Yarrington, ex-governor of Tamaulipas state, on Mexico's northeastern border with Texas, took millions of dollars in bribes from the Gulf Cartel and other traffickers, said the indictment, which was returned by the grand jury in Brownsville, Texas.
He is the third former politician in President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) to be federally indicted in southern Texas in less than a week.
Yarrington, 56, who was governor of Tamaulipas between 1999 and 2005, has been at the center of criminal allegations since last year.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/03/us-usa-mexico-crime-idUSBRE9B200W20131203
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