Cesar de Castrolawyer of Genaro Garcia Luna managed to corner the Lobo. This January 30, during the second week of the trial once morest the former head of the Secretary of Public Security during the six-year term of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), García Luna and his lawyers achieved a victory, following they questioned the testimony of Oscar Nava Valencia, aka The wolffollowing his participation in the hearing.
Nava, founder of the extinct Los Valencia cartel, began his testimony by stating that García Luna received bribes from him on two occasions. According to the drug trafficker, the former police chief had the task of hitting his enemies: La Familia Michoacana.
the counter-reply
The defense of the former Mexican Secretary of Public Security accused of drug trafficking in a United States court, tried this Monday to undermine the credibility of the drug trafficker Oscar Nava Valencia, alias “El Lobo”, who assured have paid more than 10 million dollars to Genaro García Luna in exchange for security and information.
In his question time, the robed Florian Miedel focused on the criminal past of “El Lobo” and also in that since was detained in 2011 until 2020 he never mentioned García Luna’s name during the dozens of meetings he had with US security agents and prosecutors.
El Lobo tried to justify himself by assuring, on the one hand, that the Prosecutor’s Office did not ask him specifically regarding the former Secretary of Public Security García Luna until 2020 and, on the other hand, that he was afraid of possible reprisals once morest his family.
In this sense, Miedel brought up that in 2022 “El Lobo” told US security agents that he was retracting his statements regarding garcia moon and that he had not met him, although following speaking with them, he decided to go ahead with his original testimony.