Key witness testifies in trial for former Mexican public safety chief Genaro García Luna
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A witness in the trial for the former Mexican safety chief Genaro Garcia Luna claimed to have delivered millions of dollars in payoffs. He didn't discuss what the money was buying.
Zambada is the latest in a series of ex-cartel members and admittedly corrupt former law enforcement officials to testify against García Luna. The former cartel member echoed descriptions of cocaine shipments by planes, trains and even submarines, abetted by police and officials under García Luna’s oversight — and, Zambada said he was told, by the federal police leader-turned-presidential cabinet member himself.
Zambada described an arm's-length quid pro quo. He said he made payments to García Luna through an intermediary who told him that the security chief would shield the cartel, which the witness' brother, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, helped lead.