“For 45, all in 35 until further notice“Those were the orders that, according to the testimony of a former federal police officer in the case against the former Mexican Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Lunawere broadcast over the radio at the Mexico City airport every time a suitcase with drugs or money arrived or left.
The ex-cop Raul Arellano Aguilerawho appeared as a witness for the Prosecutor’s Office, assured that in police language, this code meant that “by a superior order (45)” they had to stop acting (35) temporarily.
According to the witness, when this directive arrived, it used to be in force between one and two hours and was issued “once or twice a week”: “I had to stay in my area without checking or stopping.”
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Aguilera explained that when she started working at the airport, in 2007, these orders surprised her, and he soon discovered that they were related to the transfer of drugs and money and that they coincided with the arrival of flights from Central America and with the departure of planes to the United States and sometimes to Europe.
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To questions from the Prosecutor’s Office, he said that a group of policemen, among them the “number two” of airport security, who he identified as “Israel Espinosa”, was absent during the validity of those instructions given by radio and returned later with clear expressions of joy.
He also commented that in the dining room, these policemen, those he referred to as the “special” group said that they had passed “the suitcase” without problems and referred to said suitcases as the 7-9 or the 40which, according to Aguilera, were also police codes that indicated drugs and money respectively.
In addition, the former police officer said that he heard them say on one occasion: “That everyone was happy, they were talking about chief Genaro, Facundo and Cárdenas, they all received their share,” hinting that said political leaders were involved in drug trafficking that passed through the airfield.
Aguilera was referring to Genaro García Luna, former Federal Police commissioner Facundo Rosas Rosas and also former director of this security force Luis Cárdenas Palomino.
According to several collaborating witnesses of the Prosecutor’s Office who have appeared in the Federal Court for the Eastern District of New York, drug traffickers Sergio Villarreal Barragán, alias El Grande, and Jesús “El Rey” Zambada supervised drug trafficking at the Mexico City airport. for the Sinaloa cartel.
El Grande, who was summoned last week to testify as the Prosecutor’s first witness, He assured that the Sinaloa cartel paid García Luna 1.5 million dollars monthly to ensure his cooperation.
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