Ice Deports ex Governor of Mexico who serves the federal prison sentence in Illinois
A former governor and candidate for the presidency in Mexico who serves a Federal prison sentence In the United States for money recycling has been expelled from immigration and customs application of the United States this week.
Tomas Jesus Yarrington Ruvalcaba, 68, was removed from Ice on Wednesday and turned to the Mexican authorities, from which he was sought, announced the agency on Friday.
Yarrington was the Governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico, From 1999 to 2005 and ran as presidential candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party of Mexico in 2005.
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Tomas Jesus Yarrington Ruvalcaba, former governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico, Mexico, was serving a federal prison sentence in Illinois with charges of money laundering. (FBI archives)
Before being transferred to ice custody last summer, he was serving a 108 -month sentence in the Institution of Federal Correction Thomson in Illinois after declaring himself guilty of conspiracy to commit recycling money in 2021.
Yarrington was moved from the Illinois prison a Continue auditions for immigration, And on February 27, a judge at the executive office of the Department of Justice for the revision of immigration ordered his removal. The former politician has renounced his right to appeal.
The Mexican authorities were waiting for his arrival in the port of entry of San Ysidro to California to take it in custody for accusations that is facing there, which include organized crime and transactions with resources obtained illegally.
Immigration and application of the customs of the United States delivered the condemned criminal Tomas Jesus Yarrington Ruvalcaba, former governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico, to the Mexican authorities in the port of entry of San Ysidro on Wednesday. (Carlos Moreno/Nurphotto via Getty Images)
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The court documents have shown that they have accepted bribes from individuals and private companies in Mexico during his time as a governor of Tamaulipas to do business with the state, said Ice. He used corruption money to buy properties in the United States, but used candidates buyers in an attempt to hide his involvement.
“Yarrington recycled his busparella obtained illegally in the United States by purchasing condominiums on the beach, large properties, commercial developments, airplanes and luxury vehicles,” said Ice.
Yarrington was serving a 108 -month sentence in the institution of federal correction Thomson in Illinois after declaring himself guilty of conspiracy to commit money laundering in 2021. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, file)
Yarrington was captured Traveling in Italy In April 2017 with an assumed name and a false passport. He was taken in custody there on a provisional arrest warrant following an accusation of May 2013 for various accusations of money laundering and drugs.
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The Italian authorities eventually authorized his extradition to the United States, which he fought, and arrived in the United States in April 2018.
