de éste último hasta sus vecinos del fraccionamiento los Naranjos (Donde el tiene su casa y que colinda con la actual casa de gobierno) bien saben que estuvo protegiendo durante mas de 2 años al "Calavera"lider del cartel de los Zetas en #cdvictoria la capital del estado quien vivió al fondo de ese muy privado fraccionamiento, al cual para poder entrar.. LA IDENTIDAD es super confirmada si uds ahorita buscan en en google maps podran ver 17 camionetas suburban estacionadas adentro del fracc. cuidadando la entrada, en el 2011y 2012 en que este narcotraficante fué vecino de Egidio habia mas de 70 vehículos de vigilancia y custodia. (obviamente que sabían quien era el Narco) Que mejor escondite y protección que tener de protectores a los mismos que el Gober ademas traian una camioneta oficial de la SSP....por cierto esos datos fueron los que nos hicieron dudar de la integridad de Egidio.
Obviamente en la defensa de Yarrington saldrán a relucir Situaciones
inconvenientes para Eugenio hernandez Flores y Egidio torre Cantú (Los 3
estan ligados de una u otra forma
y esta subasta lo comprueba.. de lo contrario pues Ni la harían y ya les hubieran regresado el "condo"
. El ex gobernador del estado mexicano de
Tamaulipas Tomás Yarrington fue encausado en Texas, sur de Estados
Unidos, por ayudar a traficantes de drogas que operaban en la frontera,
de acuerdo con un proceso hecho público este lunes.
Yarrington, quien fue gobernador de Tamaulipas entre 1999 y 2004, fue
acusado de aceptar “enormes sobornos” de parte de los narcos para
permitir que operaran libremente en la zona fronteriza con Estados
Unidos.
El ex político mexicano también fue acusado de participar activamente
en contrabando de cocaína a través del puerto de Veracruz hacia Estados
Unidos entre 2007 y 2009, según los documentos del caso, divulgados el
lunes.
Los sobornos eran efectuados por miembros corrompidos de la policía
de Tamaulipas y eran escondidos en un banco estadunidense o utilizados
para compra de propiedades en Texas, afirman los fiscales en el
documento de 53 páginas.
Yarrington, de 56 años, podría pasar el resto de su vida en una
prisión estadunidense en caso de que sea condenado, ya que además es
acusado de conspiración para cometer delitos, lavado de dinero y fraudes
bancarios.
Los cargos fueron presentados formalmente en mayo, informó un
tribunal de Texas, después de una investigación que demoró varios años.
En el proceso, los fiscales también acusaron al empresario mexicano
Fernando Alejandro Cano, propietario de una firma de construcción que
supuestamente fue utilizada como fachada para lavar el dinero
proveniente de los sobornos.
Yarrington fue alcalde de Matamoros entre 1992 y 1995, y en 2005
llegó a ser precandidato presidencial por el Partido Revolucionario
Institucional (PRI).
En 2011, sin embargo, se le vinculó con los cárteles de
narcotraficantes, en especial después del asesinato del empresario
Alfonso Peña. En mayo del año pasado el PRI lo excluyó de sus cuadros
militantes.
El estado de Tamaulipas hace frontera con las ciudades de Laredo y Brownsville, en Texas.
La fiscalía mexicana emitió en agosto del año pasado un pedido de
arresto contra Yárrington, quien llegó a ser brevemente detenido en
Texas pero liberado posteriormente.
Yárrington es el tercer ex gobernador mexicano con procesos en la
justicia estadounidense, después de Mario Villanueva Madrid (Quintana
Roo) y Jorge Juan Torres López (Coahuila).
BROWNSVILLE, TX—A federal indictment charging Tomas
Yarrington Ruvalcaba, the former governor of the state of Tamaulipas,
Mexico, has been unsealed.
The unsealing was announced by United States Attorneys Kenneth
Magidson and Robert L. Pitman, of the Southern and Western Districts of
Texas, respectively, along with Janice Ayala, special agent in charge,
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI); Javier Peña, special agent in
charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); Bernard Butler, acting
special agent in charge, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation
(IRS-CI); and Armando Fernandez, special agent in charge, FBI.
Following an investigation that spanned several years, the sealed
indictment was returned in May 2013 by a federal grand jury sitting in
Brownsville. The indictment charges Yarrington, 56, and Fernando
Alejandro Cano Martinez, 57, the owner of a Mexican construction firm,
with conspiring to violate the provisions of the Racketeer Influenced
and Corrupt Organization (RICO) statute. The two men are also charged
with conspiracy to launder money, conspiracy to defraud, and conspiracy
to make false statements to federally insured U.S. banks.
Yarrington is also separately charged with a conspiracy to violate
the provisions of the Controlled Substances Act, two substantive bank
fraud charges, and a conspiracy to structure currency transactions at a
domestic financial institution, while Cano is separately charged with
three counts of bank fraud.
Yarrington served as governor of Tamaulipas from 1999 to 2004.
Tamaulipas lies along the southern border between the United States and
Mexico directly across from Brownsville and Laredo.
According to the indictment, beginning in approximately 1998,
Yarrington received large bribes from major drug traffickers operating
in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, including the Gulf Cartel. In
return, Yarrington allegedly allowed them to operate their large scale,
multi-ton enterprises freely, which included the smuggling of large
quantities of drugs to the United States for distribution. From 2007 to
2009, Yarrington allegedly became involved in the smuggling of large
amounts of cocaine through the Port of Veracruz into the United States.
Yarrington also allegedly collected bribes from commercial operations
in Mexico, according to the indictment. Cano operated Materiales y
Construcciones Villa de Aguayo, S.A. de C.V., a construction firm in
Tamaulipas that received significant public works contracts during
Yarrington’s term as governor. The indictment alleges Cano, in turn,
paid bribes to Yarrington to include the acquisition of real estate in
front names for him.
The indictment further alleges Yarrington also received control over
stolen public funds in the latter part of 2004. Portions of those funds
were allegedly used to buy a Sabreliner 60 airplane in January 2005. As
part of that purchase, $300,000 was transferred to a bank account in the
United States. Another portion of the allegedly stolen funds, $5
million Mexican pesos, was transferred to Cano in the spring of 2005,
according to the indictment.
The indictment further alleges that starting in approximately 1998,
Yarrington, and later to include Cano, became involved in the
acquisition of valuable assets in the United States, using front names
and business entities established starting in 2005 to disguise the true
ownership of the assets. The assets allegedly included bank accounts,
residences, airplanes, vehicles, and real estate in Bexar, Cameron,
Hidalgo, and Hays Counties, many of which were acquired via allegedly
fraudulent loans from banks in Texas. According to the indictment, bank
accounts established in front names at Texas banks were used to receive
and disburse money to carry the ongoing costs of the assets, such as
loan costs and condo fees.
The indictment identifies numerous specific front entities involved
in the scheme, each of which allegedly applied for multi-million-dollar
fraudulent loans at Texas banks, which Cano allegedly personally
guaranteed. The indictment details a total of more than $7 million in
transfers into the U.S. accounts of the front entities.
Additional entities were created and used to apply for other loans to
fund the purchase of still other assets, according to the indictment.
Numerous currency transactions were allegedly conducted at First
National Bank, headquartered in Edinburg, Texas, in a structured manner
in amounts at or below $10,000 in order to evade the filing of Currency
Transaction Reports by the bank.
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| Tomas Yarrington Ruvalcaba |
Fernando Alejandro Cano Martinez |
Neither Yarrington nor Cano is in the custody of the United
States and warrants remain outstanding for their arrests. Anyone with
information about their whereabouts is asked to contact Homeland
Security Investigations at 956-542-5811. Persons calling from Mexico
should call 001-800-010-5237.
The RICO and money laundering charges each carry sentences of up to
20 years in prison, while conspiracy to commit bank fraud carries as
possible punishment up to 30 years. The drug conspiracy charges carry a
term of imprisonment of at least 10 years. The currency structuring
charges carry a possible five-year term of imprisonment.
The indictment also includes a notice of forfeiture. Some of the
assets identified in the indictment already have been seized by the
United States in civil forfeiture actions over the course of the
investigation, to include approximately 46 acres in Bexar County, a
condo on South Padre Island, a 2005 Pilatus airplane, and residences in
Hidalgo and Hays counties.
The investigation leading to the indictment has been conducted by the
Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force in Brownsville, San
Antonio, Houston, Corpus Christi, and New York and has included agents
and officers with HSI, DEA, IRS-CI, FBI, and the Texas Attorney
General’s Office. The United States government also acknowledges with
gratitude the significant assistance received from the government of
Mexico in the course of this investigation, including through sharing
evidence and expertise.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Charles Lewis, Julie K. Hampton, and Jody Young.
An indictment is a formal accusation of criminal conduct, not
evidence. A defendant is presumed innocent unless and until convicted
through due process of law.
MÉXICO, D.F. (apro).- Una joven increpó al presidente Enrique Peña
Nieto por las desapariciones forzadas en Tamaulipas, durante un acto
celebrado en las oficinas centrales de la Secretaría de Educación
Pública (SEP) en el Centro Histórico de esta capital.
