The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the unsealing of an indictment charging 10 former and current Mexican officials, including a state governor, with drug trafficking and related weapons offenses.
The officials are alleged to have “conspired with leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel to import massive quantities of narcotics into the United States in exchange for political support and bribes,” the DOJ said in an April 29 statement.
One of the indicted individuals is Ruben Rocha Moya, the governor of Sinaloa state.
The remaining nine are current or former high-ranking government and law enforcement officials in the state. One of the defendants is facing additional charges for allegedly participating in the kidnapping of a Drug Enforcement Administration source and the source’s relative, which ended in their deaths….