Cesar Duarte, ex-governor of Chihuahua state.
Another ex-governor, Cesar Duarte of Chihuahua state, is also wanted on suspicion of corruption and is said to have fled to El Paso, Texas. He is not related to Javier Duarte.
Posted on 04/16/2017 4:46:29 AM PDT by csvset
Javier Duarte, the former governor of Mexico's Veracruz state who is accused of running a corruption ring that allegedly pilfered from state coffers, was detained in Guatemala after six months as a fugitive and high-profile symbol of government graft in his country.
A statement from Mexico's federal Attorney General's Office said Duarte was detained Saturday with the cooperation of Guatemalan police and the country's Interpol office in the municipality of Panajachel, a picturesque tourist town on Lake Atitlan in Guatemala's highlands.
It said he is wanted on suspicion of money laundering and organized crime, and prosecutors directed the Foreign Relations Department to request Duarte's extradition via its Guatemalan counterpart. A photo released by Guatemalan police showed a bespectacled Duarte, clad in a gray shirt and black jacket-vest, being escorted by Interpol agents. Manuel Noriega, deputy director of Interpol in Guatemala, said Duarte was located at a hotel where he was staying with his wife.
He was asked to leave his room, did so voluntarily and then was arrested without incident in the lobby. Noriega said Duarte would be presented before a judge to consider his possible extradition. Duarte was being transferred to the Guatemalan capital early Sunday. In a brief cellphone conversation with The Associated Press, he declined to comment.
Duarte, 43, was governor of Veracruz from 2010 until he left office Oct. 12, 2016, two months before the scheduled end of his term, saying he was doing so in order to face the allegations against him. At the time he denied having links to phantom businesses that allegedly won state contracts, and said he had not stolen a single peso of state money or diverted government funds overseas. "I don't have foreign accounts," he said last year. "I don't have properties anywhere." Duarte promptly disappeared
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Former Tampaulipas governor Tomas Yarrington nabbed in Italy
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican prosecutors say that a former governor of the border state of Tamaulipas has been detained in Italy. The attorney general's office said Sunday that ex-Gov. Tomas Yarrington is accused in Mexico of money laundering and organized crime. He is also wanted in the United States for allegedly receiving millions of dollars in bribes from the Gulf cartel during his 1999 to 2004 term. The office said it expects Yarrington will be returned to Mexico soon. Yarrington's lawyers have in the past denied the charges against him. During his tenure, drug gangs rose to dominate the state. His Institutional Revolutionary Party expelled him from its ranks late last year. Local media reports said Yarrington was detained in Florence, Italy.
Another ex-governor, Cesar Duarte of Chihuahua state, is also wanted on suspicion of corruption and is said to have fled to El Paso, Texas. He is not related to Javier Duarte.
Returned to Mexico only to be back on the run in a one in a million next to impossible odds Prison escape.
Former Tamaulipas Gov. Tomás Yarrington was arrested in Italy on Sunday by Italian police acting on a U.S. warrant.
MEXICO CITY—While former Tamaulipas Gov. Tomás Yarrington was on the run last year from drug trafficking and money-laundering charges in Mexico and the U.S., he was assigned eight state policemen as bodyguards, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal
He’ll wind up in LA as a political activist associated with LA Rasa......
Javier Duarte---in custody---denied having links to phantom businesses that allegedly won state contracts, and said he had not stolen a single peso of state money or diverted government funds overseas. "I don't have foreign accounts," he said last year. "I don't have properties anywhere." Duarte then promptly disappeared.
MEXICO CITY—While former Tamaulipas Gov. Tomás Yarrington was on the run last year from drug trafficking and money-laundering charges in Mexico and the US, he was assigned eight state policemen as bodyguards, according to documents reviewed by The WSJ.
Cesar Duarte, ex-governor of Chihuahua state is also wanted on suspicion of corruption and is said to have fled to El Paso, Texas (not related to Javier Duarte).
Former Tampaulipas governor Tomas Yarrington nabbed in Italy, accused of money laundering and organized crime;also wanted in the US for allegedly receiving millions in bribes from the Gulf drug cartel during his 1999-2004 term. During his tenure, drug gangs rose to dominate the state. His Institutional Revolutionary Party expelled him from its ranks late last year. Yarrington was detained in Florence, Italy.
Duarte is a solid Portugese name——they should head for Brazil.:-)
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You would think one of our vaunted intel agencies would have Duarte's location available due to spying on his phone calls.
Mexico, deadlier than Iraq?!
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