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Mexican official who led war on drugs jailed for 38 years for accepting bribes
Genaro Garcia Luna was accused of taking millions of dollars from the Sinaloa cartel for shielding members
Genaro Garcia Luna, the official who for several years led Mexico’s fight against the country’s violent drug trade, was sentenced to more than 38 years in US prison for accepting bribes from the cartels he was supposed to fight.
The US district judge Brian Cogan announced the sentence at a hearing in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday.
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