Mexico ex-drug czar sentenced to more than 38 years in US prison over cartel bribes

FILE PHOTO: Mexico's former Public Security Minister Genaro Garcia Luna gestures to his wife and two children seated in audience, before being escorted out of the courtroom by U.S. Marshalls in New York City, U.S., February 21, 2023 in this courtroom sketch. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg/File Photo

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Genaro Garcia Luna, who for several years led Mexico's fight against the country's violent drug trade, was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 38 years in U.S. prison for accepting bribes from the cartels he was supposed to fight.

U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan announced the sentence at a hearing in Brooklyn federal court.