FILE PHOTO: Javier Duarte de Ochoa, former governor of Mexican state Veracruz, gestures from inside a vehicle while leaving after a court appearance for extradition proceedings in Guatemala City, Guatemala, July 4, 2017. REUTERS/Luis Echeverria
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A disgraced former state governor from Mexico's ruling party was sentenced on Wednesday to nine years in prison for money laundering and links to organised crime in a case that public auditors said was the worst they had ever seen in Mexico.
Javier Duarte, who governed the Gulf coast state of Veracruz for outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) until 2016, pleaded guilty to the charges in federal court, according to Mexican media.
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