Mexico City: Mexico said that Monday had arrested former leading police officials on charges of torture from almost a decade ago.
Former Federal Police Commander Luis Cardenas Palomino was considered the right man of the former Security Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna.
Garcia Luna is now being held on charges of drug trafficking in the United States.
The US prosecutor also accused the Cardenas Palomino to receive millions of bribes from the Sinaloa cartel.
It is not clear whether Mexico will consider extraditing Him.
The Attorney General’s Office Mexico said Monday that Cardenas Palomino was arrested on the outskirts of Mexico on charges of torturing suspect kidnapping in 2012.
The US prosecutor, Garcia Luna took tens of millions of dollars in bribery to protect Joaquin “El Chapo ” El Chapo ” cartel.
Garcia Luna, who was waiting for the trial in New York, has denied the allegations.
Garcia Luna served from 2006 to 2012 as Mexican’s public security secretary before moving to the US, he was arrested in 2019 in Texas.
Cardenas Palomino serves as the top of the commander in the federal police Now lost during the same years.
He and Garcia Luna are famous in Mexico for allegedly held an attack on 2005 for TV cameras, which lead to the arrest of two suspects kidnapping, although the suspect has been illegally detained before.
Author Jose Reveles said Cardenas Palomino was “One of the main operators of Garcia Luna ” and will be a witness with Special information ” in the format r boss, adding him is likely to be extradited.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador quoted widespread corruption and violations in the Federal Police as a major factor in his decision to eliminate strength in 2019 and rolled several officers to the National Guard.