| | |  News Around the Republic of Mexico | October 2008 
Mexico's Federal Organized Crime Unit Infiltrated by Drug Cartel: Official
 E. Eduardo Castillo - Associated Press
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Mexico City - A drug cartel has reportedly infiltrated Mexico's federal Attorney General's Office.
Assistant Attorney General Marisela Morales says department officials have been passing along sensitive information to the Beltran-Leyva cartel. He says investigators have found that two top officials of the department's organized crime department and at least three federal policemen were on the cartel's payroll.
Morales tells a news conference that they appear to have been passing along information on surveillance targets and potential raids for at least four years.
One of the officials was an assistant intelligence director and the other served as a liaison in requesting searches and assigning officers to carry them out.
Morales says the agents and officials received payments of between $150,000 and $450,000 a month.
The case represents the most serious known infiltration of anti-crime agencies since the 1997 arrest of Gen. Jesus Gutierrez Rebollo, the head of Mexico's anti-drug agency, who was later convicted of aiding drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes, who has since died.
The Beltran Leyva brothers are one of the groups that make up northern Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, the country's largest drug trafficking confederation.
Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora said that investigations were continuing to see whether any other informants had infiltrated prosecutors' offices. |
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