The former prosecutor of Nayarit, Edgar Veytia, sentenced to 20 years in prison for drug trafficking in the United States, was confirmed Thursday as one of the witnesses in the trial against Genaro García Luna.
MEXICO CITY – Nayarit prosecutor Edgar Veytia was confirmed Thursday as one of the witnesses who will testify against Genaro Garcia Luna in his drug trafficking trial being held in Brooklyn, New York.
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| Edgar Veytia, former prosecutor of Nayarit |
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The list is made up of other "famous" drug traffickers such as Sergio Villarreal Barragán "El Grande," Miguel Ángel Arriola Márquez and Jesús Reynaldo Zambada García "El Rey".
Edgar Veytia was sentenced to 20 years in prison for drug trafficking in the United States. Their crimes, however, go much further.
After his capture in California, horror stories began to emerge in Nayarit: disappearance of people, kidnapping, extortion, uprisings and murders suffered by merchants, landowners who were forced to pay floor rights or squander their land.
A report published in the magazine Proceso in August 2019 documents that, in the period 2011-2017, during the government of PRI member Roberto Sandoval, hooded police led by Veytia extorted hundreds of people to dispossess them of houses, ranches, businesses, warehouses, land and money.
After his capture in the United States, it was published that the former prosecutor facilitated the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) to store shipments of cocaine and synthetic drug precursors that landed in Manzanillo, Colima, in Nayarit.
In the United States, Veytia confessed that he worked for the CJNG, as did then-Governor Sandoval.