Former Mexican Minister of Defense from 2012 to 2018 Salvador Cienfuegos has been charged in the United States with drug trafficking and money laundering, according to a document released by the Brooklyn federal prosecutor, and was due to be presented to a court on Friday. judge in Los Angeles.
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He is charged with criminal conspiracy to produce, import into the United States and distribute heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine, as well as money laundering, over a period from December 2015 to February 2017, while he was minister.