Former Tamaulipas controller guilty on money laundering free from US situation – Information Important Online

Mexican grey soldiers educate a see assignment for quaternary U.S. citizens seize by gunmen in Matamoros, Mexico, Monday, March 6, 2023. (AP Photo)

McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) — The past controller of the Mexican abut land of Tamaulipas who was blameable of money laundering has been free from a U.S. prison.

Tómas Yarrington Ruvalcaba, 67, was free from federal situation on July 3, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.

A picture posted on X shows Yarrington exiting a eggbeater low onerous brachiate guard.

He had been held at a penitentiary in Illinois, Mexican media reportable on X.

The (McAllen) Monitor production reports that he staleness today help threesome eld of supervised release.

Yarrington was sentenced on March 15, 2023, to help figure eld in prison. He pleaded blameable to digit calculate of band to clean over $3.5 meg in bribes and utilised the money to fraudulently acquire concept in the United States.

Federal prosecutors verify he laundered more than $9 meg over 14 eld and took jillions of dollars in bribes from the Gulf Cartel from 1998 to 2013.

He was inactive in Italia in 2017, where he had fled and was extradited to the United States in Apr 2018.

He prefabricated a prototypal attendance in federal suite in Brownsville, Texas, low onerous personnel endorsement that caused approaching of Atlantic anchorage and eggbeater surveillance. His effort was held in Houston.

From 1993 to 1995, Yarrington was politician of the Mexican abut municipality of Matamoros, which is southward of the abut from Brownsville. From 1999 to 2005 he was controller of Tamaulipas.

He was an Institutional Revolutionary Party politician for chair of Mexico in 2005.

Sandra Salim crapper be reached at SSanchez@BorderReport.com.