The Attorney General’s Office Mexico reported on Saturday that it summoned a governor accused by the United States of drug trafficking to testify, who responded that he will attend the meeting since “he has nothing to fear.”
The Attorney General’s Office Mexico reported on Saturday that it summoned a governor accused by the United States of drug trafficking to testify, who responded that he will attend the meeting since “he has nothing to fear.”
The governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, 76, belongs to the party of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum. The US justice system identified him at the end of April as having links to the Sinaloa cartel, after which he requested a license from the position.
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Rocha Moya said on social network X on Saturday that he will attend the meeting with the authorities “with the certainty that the truth will prevail.”
“I am a man and he has nothing to fear. My biography testifies to what I am,” said the president, the first acting governor to be formally accused of drug trafficking in the United States.
The governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha Moya, during the press conference on April 8, 2024. (Photo by Rashide FRIAS / AFP).
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The prosecution also said that it called to testify nine other Sinaloa officials whom the United States accused of drug trafficking along with Rocha Moya. Two of them have already surrendered to the US authorities.
The agency said in a statement that it seeks to advance “seriously and exhaustively” in the investigation into the president.
The prosecution also called the governor of the northern state of Chihuahua, Maru Campos, to testify for the death of two US agents in her state during April in a road accident.
