A former governor and presidential candidate in Mexico who served a federal prison sentence in the US.
Tomas Jesús Yarrington Ruvalcaba, 68, was removed by ICE on Wednesday and addressed the Mexican authorities, whom he was looking for, the agency announced on Friday.
Yreenton was the governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico, from 1999 to 2005, and was executed as a presidential candidate for the Institutional Revolutionary Party of Mexico in 2005.
Before being transferred to ice custody last summer, he was serving a 108 -month sentence in the Federal Thomson Correctional Institution in Illinois after he declared conspiracy guilty to commit a money laundering in 2021.
Yreenton was transferred from Illinois prison to continue immigration hearings, and on February 27, a judge of the Executive Office of the Imigration Review Department of Imigration Review ordered his removal.
The former politician resigned from his right to appeal.
The Mexican authorities were waiting for their arrival at the port of San Ysidro entrance in California to stop him for the positions he faces there, which include organized crimes and transactions with resources obtained illegally.
The judicial documents showed that it accepted bribes of private individuals and companies in the time of Mexico as governor of Tamaulipas to do business with the State, said Ice.
He used the bribery money to buy properties in the United States, but used buyers nominated in an attempt to hide their participation.
“Yarrington washed his bribery money obtained illegally in the United States by buying condominiums in front of the beach, large properties, commercial developments, airplanes and luxury vehicles,” said Ice.
Yreenton was caught traveling in Italy in April 2017 under an assumed name and false passport.
It was tasks in custody there in a provisional judgment order after an accusation of May 2013 for several positions related to money laundering and drugs.
The Italian authorities finally authorized their extradition to the United States, which he fought, and arrived in the United States in April 2018.
