WORLD BRIEFING / MEXICO
Two former top officials in Mexico’s Interpol offices were charged with aiding a drug cartel in exchange for money, the attorney general’s office announced.
Ricardo Gutierrez Vargas and Rodolfo de la Guardia Garcia, who have been under house arrest since November, were transferred to federal prison.
De la Guardia allegedly accepted payments of $10,000 a month from the Sinaloa cartel to place officers sympathetic to the cartel in key positions. Gutierrez Vargas is accused of giving the cartel confidential information in exchange for unspecified payments.
The charges are part of an investigation called Operation Clean House that has netted more than a dozen high-ranking officials.
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