The former governor of Tamaulipas, Tomás Yarrington, received a formal prison order for crimes against health in the form of collaboration to promote the commission of such crimes. The Attorney General's Office (FGR) reported that, through the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime (FEMDO), it obtained from the Second District Judge of Federal Criminal Proceedings in the State of Tamaulipas, based in Matamoros, the formal imprisonment of the former PRI governor.
On Wednesday, April 9, U.S. authorities deported Yarrington at the El Chaparral border crossing in Tijuana, Baja California, where he already had an arrest warrant against him for the crime in question. Immediately, the former Tamaulipas governor was taken to the high-security prison of Altiplano, in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico, where he was placed at the disposal of the requesting judge.
Tomás Yarrington served a seven-year sentence for money laundering at the Thomson prison in Illinois, United States, so once that sentence was served, he was sent back to Mexico. The former governor of Tamaulipas was captured in Florence, Italy, in April 2017, through the collaboration of the Legal and International Affairs Subprocuracy, the Criminal Investigation Agency with the authorities of Italy, where he was imprisoned for a year before being extradited to the United States.
U.S. authorities accused him of drug trafficking and money laundering. According to the accusation, Yarrington's front men received funds from leaders of Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel. In 2021, he admitted to accepting more than 3.5 million dollars in bribes, which he used to purchase properties in the United States, and that the illegal money he received was attempted to be hidden in the United States through the purchase of real estate and vehicles.
With information from Quadratin and David Saúl Vela.
