Former Mexican Defence Minister Detained in US, Foreign Minister Says
02:40 GMT 16.10.2020(updated 03:27 GMT 16.10.2020)
MEXICO CITY (Sputnik) – Former Mexican Defence Minister Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda has been detained at the airport of the US city of Los Angeles, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said.
The ex-defence minister was detained at the request of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), a spokesperson for the DEA confirmed later.
"US Ambassador Christopher Landau told me that former Defense Minister Gen Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda had been detained at the airport of Los Angeles, the state of California", Ebrard wrote on his Twitter page on late Thursday.
Cienfuegos Zepeda is the latest former senior official from Mexico to be detained after Mexico's former Secretary of Public Security Genaro Garcia Luna was arrested in December 2019 by federal agents in Dallas, Texas. In July, the United States indicted him and two senior associates in a cocaine trafficking conspiracy.
Cienfuegos Zepeda had headed the Mexican Defense Ministry in 2012-2018.
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