In the United States, the Mexican Raudel Campos Murillo He was accused and imprisoned for the crimes of transporting women and minors for the purposes of prostitution in 2022.
In Mexico, Campos Murillo is the current treasurer of the municipality of Tacámbaro, Michoacán, an area that is controlled by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). Mexican security sources are investigating possible links between the now official and said criminal group.
According to official documents, on December 13, 2011, the United States Department of Justice formally charged Campos with trafficking of women in several states on the East Coast.
The current treasurer of Tacámbaro was arrested in Mexico in May 2021 and the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) handed him over to the US authorities in February 2022, during the six-year term of Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Before the Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, in Alexandria, Campos Murillo pleaded guilty to a charge of transportation of minors. September 2, 2022 He was sentenced to 18 months in prisoncounted from May 18, 2021, which were completed in November 2022.
He was also sentenced to two years of supervised release, but in cases of Mexicans who do not have dual nationality or permanent residence, they are often deported as soon as they are released from prison.
Expelled from USA, Campos Murillo was related to Salvador Bastida’s campaigncandidate for mayor of Tacámbaro, and with the victory he was appointed municipal treasurer last September.
The previous mayor was Artemio Moriya Sánchez, who was involved in controversies with organized crime. One of his nephews, named Erik, was murdered on January 9 by an armed commando.
In August 2022, Yeishi Moriya28, daughter of the former mayor, was detained in Laredo, Texas, when she was trying to cross into Mexico with $248,000 in cash and weapons, for which she was prosecuted for money laundering crimes in Webb County.
In Mexico, security sources assure that the treasurer of Tacámbaro, Raudel Campos, could have a relationship with the CJNG leaders who seek to control the Michoacán region.
They investigate support for CJNG
In a video released in November 2019, an armed group that identified itself as a CJNG cell said it had raided Tacámbaro, Michoacán.
Raudel Campos Murillo, currently the municipal treasurer of Tacámbaro, would have appeared in said video, according to security sources.
Since 2019, CJNG hitmen started a war against their rivals “The Viagras”. “Here, the CJNG of Tacámbaro and its surroundings, we want to thank you for the support you have sent us, we are here for whatever is offered,” says a man in the video in alleged gratitude to “El Mencho”leader of the CJNG.
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