A former governor and presidential candidate in Mexico serving a federal jail sentence within the US for cash laundering was deported by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this week.
Tomas Jesus Yarrington Ruvalcaba, 68, was eliminated by ICE on Wednesday and turned over to Mexican authorities, whom he was wished by, the company introduced on Friday.
Yarrington was the governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico, from 1999 to 2005, and ran as a presidential candidate for Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Social gathering in 2005.
Earlier than he was transferred to ICE custody final summer season, he was serving a 108-month sentence within the Federal Correctional Establishment Thomson in Illinois after he pleaded responsible to conspiracy to commit cash laundering in 2021.
Yarrington was moved from the Illinois jail to proceed immigration hearings, and on Feb. 27, a decide with the Division of Justice’s Govt Workplace for Immigration Evaluation ordered his removing.
The ex-politician waived his proper to enchantment.
Mexican authorities had been awaiting his arrival on the San Ysidro Port of Entry in California to take him into custody for expenses he’s going through there, which embrace organized crime and transactions with illegally obtained assets.
Court docket paperwork confirmed that he accepted bribes from people and personal corporations in Mexico throughout his time as governor of Tamaulipas to do enterprise with the state, ICE stated.
He used the bribery cash to buy properties in the USA, however used nominee patrons in an try to cover his involvement.
“Yarrington laundered his illegally obtained bribe money in the United States by purchasing beachfront condominiums, large estates, commercial developments, airplanes and luxury vehicles,” ICE stated.
Yarrington was caught touring in Italy in April 2017 underneath an assumed title and pretend passport.
He was taken into custody there on a provisional arrest warrant following a Might 2013 indictment for varied cash laundering and drug-related expenses.
Italian authorities in the end licensed his extradition to the US, which he fought, and he arrived within the states in April 2018.
