Work ties pose questions over U.S. intel on nabbed Mexican drug official


  • World
  • Saturday, 21 Dec 2019

FILE PHOTO: Mexico's former Public Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna at a meeting with the Human Rights commission at the Senate in Mexico City November 29, 2012. REUTERS/Tomas Bravo

MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Business ties between former U.S. officials and an ex-Mexican security minister charged with taking bribes from a drug cartel have raised questions about what U.S. law enforcement knew about him before his arrest this month.

A former U.S. official who once headed the FBI's office in Mexico and a senior ex-CIA officer worked as recently as last year with the accused Genaro Garcia Luna, one of the principal architects of Mexico's 13-year war on drug cartels.

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