The United States government deported former Tamaulipas governor Tomás Yarrington Ruvalcaba to Mexico after serving seven of the nine years he was sentenced to in 2018 by a Texas court for money laundering.
Federal sources reported that the former PRI member was handed over to agents of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) assigned to Interpol at the San Diego-San Isidro border. They served him arrest warrants for crimes against public health and operations with illicit proceeds, and then transported him by air to Mexico City.
After his arrival in Mexico City, the former president was taken to the Altiplano maximum-security prison, where he will appear before a supervisory judge who will determine his legal status, federal sources reported.
It should be noted that in 2024, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) requested the arrest of the former governor of Tamaulipas for his alleged involvement in money laundering.
However, the head of the Second District Court for Federal Criminal Proceedings in the State of Mexico, Raquel Ivette Duarte Cedillo, returned the request to the FGR to “correct various existing deficiencies” in the preliminary investigation it initiated against the politician, who was detained in Italy in 2018.
According to ministerial investigations, a protected witness who was part of the Tamaulipas-based Gulf Cartel accused Yarrington Ruvalcaba, in his capacity as governor, of facilitating drug trafficking and money laundering.
In 2018, Yarrington Ruvalcaba was sentenced to nine years in prison by a Texas court for money laundering in the United States, amounting to 12.7 million pesos and $450 million in property purchases, international drug trafficking, bank fraud, and tax evasion.
Source: eluniversal
