The United States has deported Tomas Yarrington, a former governor of Tamaulipas, Mexico, who had been serving a sentence for money laundering charges in Texas, according to Mexican authorities on Wednesday.
Yarrington, who governed the violent border state of Tamaulipas from 1999 to 2005, was arrested in Italy in 2017 at the request of both U.S. and Mexican authorities.
He was subsequently sentenced to nine years in prison after being found guilty of accepting $3.5 million in bribes while in office, using the funds to purchase luxury properties in the United States.
Currently, Yarrington is being held in a maximum-security prison near Mexico City, according to a federal source who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity. While Mexican authorities have not disclosed the specific crimes he is facing in Mexico, he was previously accused in 2009 of having alleged connections to drug trafficking and money laundering.
