Another Former Governor from Ruling PRI Party Has Been Arrested on Corruption Charges Jason Buch - San Antonio Express-News
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Former governor Eugenio Hernández – the fourth this year — has been arrested on corruption charges (Gobierno De Tamaulipa)

Update: Will Latest Ex-Governor Captured in Mexico Face Extradition? (InSight Crime)

Authorities in Mexico have arrested Eugenio Hernández Flores, the former governor of a border state who’s wanted in Texas on money laundering charges.

Hernández, who served as the governor of the border state of Tamaulipas from 2005 to 2010, was arrested Friday on state charges, according to the press office of current Gov. Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca.

Tamaulipas borders Texas from Brownsville to Laredo.

Hernández is wanted on U.S. federal charges out of Corpus Christi, where he’s accused of taking money from the Zetas drug cartel as well as taking part in a bribery and kickback scheme in Mexico, then washing the money through U.S. banks and real estate transactions.

“Eugenio Hernández has been identified by the Drug Enforcement Administration as receiving bribes from Los Zetas Drug Cartel, a transnational criminal organization, in order for the cartel to have the unfettered ability to operate in Tamaulipas while Mr. Hernández was governor,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Julie Hampton said during the 2013 plea hearing of Guillermo Flores Cordero, a Mexican businessman who admitted helping elected officials launder money in the United States.

In that and other hearings, Hampton outlined how Flores allegedly helped officials like Hernández, who under U.S. law face heightened scrutiny from banks because of their political positions, launder millions of dollars in Texas. Flores would use his businesses’ accounts to wire the money from Mexico to the U.S, then transfer it to Hernández and members of his family, Hampton said.

Hernández, who has been living openly in Mexico since his 2015 indictment, has denied the allegations.

... Hernández is the second former Tamaulipas governor to be arrested this year. Tomás Yarrington Ruvalcaba, who preceded Hernández in office, was arrested in April in Italy. U.S. authorities are seeking his extradition on money laundering and racketeering charges out of a Brownsville federal court.

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