The former federal police officer, Raúl Arellano, affirmed that he was a witness that during the management of Genaro García Luna at the head of the Federal Security Secretariat (2006-2012), at the International Airport of Mexico City (AICM) orders were given to leave pass illicit drugs.
Called as a witness in the trial of the former Secretary of Security, in the Court of the Eastern District of New York, Arellano recounted that while he was commissioned to the security of the AICM once or twice a week the order was given to the security elements of “45 by 35”.
Said order, he explained, meant that the police officers on duty at the airport had to stay in their places without carrying out inspection work and only await any new indication. This coincided with the arrival of flights from South America or departures to Europe and the United States.
While this was happening, he said, a special group of federal police would mobilize and disappear for some time.
The former police officer linked other close collaborators of García Luna to these events, such as Facundo Rosas, who served as general commissioner of the extinct Federal Police, as well as Ramón Pequeño, who was head of the Anti-drug Division of the security institution.
In addition to Óscar Moreno Villatoro, who was the head of airports for the Federal Police. Regarding him, Arellano assured that on one occasion I can see how a briefcase he was carrying was full of dollars.
Regarding Moreno Villatoro, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador requested, in August 2021, that he be investigated due to the network of corruption in federal prisons detected and in which he would have been involved.
This case, it is worth mentioning, is together with the “Fast and Furious” operation —with which thousands of weapons were sent from the United States to Mexico— that García Luna is accused of in Mexico and for which two arrest warrants.
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Another of the witnesses to participate was Israel Ávila, who for years kept the accounts of drug traffickers such as Mario Pineda, alias El Gordo Malo.
In his testimony, Ávila assured that in his records they added up to 10 million dollars that had been paid as bribes to García Luna, although these resources were not delivered directly to the former Secretary of Security.
He explained that the payments were delivered to other drug traffickers such as Sergio Villarreal, alias El Grande or Édgar Valdez, known as Barbie, who later allegedly delivered the money to the former Secretary of State.
On this matter, Ávila added that in his records the name of García Luna was not registered as such, but rather the nickname of the stutterer or the submachine gun, which made reference to the language problems that García Luna presents. (With agency information)
