Genaro García Luna

Genaro García Luna (born July 10, 1968) is a former Mexican government official, engineer, and convicted drug trafficker. He served as Secretary of Public Security in the federal cabinet of Felipe Calderón. He was later found to have used his high-ranking role to favor the Sinaloa Cartel to engage in drug-trafficking activities during the Mexican drug war.

Since his term working for the Mexican government, García Luna has worked as a consultant and businessman evaluating the social, political and financial economics of Mexico and Latin America. He is a partner in the company GLAC, which provides an index to evaluate risk and security conditions. The GLAC index is published in ''El Heraldo de México'' and ''El Financiero''. It is used by the business community to evaluate the risk and security conditions for different states and cities in Mexico.

García Luna was included in a list of the "10 most corrupt Mexicans" published by ''Forbes'' in 2013. He broke a self-imposed silence in a letter to Steve Forbes that his inclusion in the list was based on lies and that it lacked journalistic integrity.

He is the author of ''Contra el crimen: ¿Por qué 1,661 corporaciones de policía no bastan? Pasado, Presente y Futuro de la Policía en México'' (2006) [Against Crime: Why 1,661 police forces are not enough. Past, Present and Future of Police in Mexico], where he first laid out the basic concepts of the New Police Model for Mexico, placing the emphasis on the importance of intelligence tasks, and “El Nuevo Modelo de Seguridad para México” (2011), which indicates what are the considerations and the state vision to confront a national priority.

In the 2018 trial of the drug kingpin Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán Loera, El Chapo's partner Ismael Zambada García’s brother, Jesus Zambada García, testified to bribing García Luna with suitcases stuffed with $3 million in cash on two occasions.

On December 9, 2019, García Luna was arrested in Dallas on charges of taking millions in bribes from the Sinaloa Cartel.

On February 21, 2023, García Luna was declared guilty of all five counts by a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, making the once-highest ranking law enforcement official in Mexico now a convicted felon. Provided by Wikipedia