A former Mexican governor was extradited on Thursday from the United States.

Where he had been held for nearly two years on charges of embezzlement and criminal association, Mexican authorities said in a statement.

Cesar Duarte, who governed the state of Chihuahua from 2010 to 2016, was arrested in 2020 by U.S. Marshals in Miami, Florida.

Duarte is accused of acting in a group to divert more than 96 million pesos, or the then-equivalent of $6.5 million, from the government between 2011 and 2014.

The former governor's extradition was the "result of the close collaboration" between Mexico and the United States, authorities said, coming the same day six Mexicans were sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury for alleged cartel involvement.

Current Chihuahua Governor Maru Campos said in a message on Twitter she "celebrates" the decision, adding that her administration would not "forgive or forget" the actions of past governors.

Mexico’s Foreign Relations Department said Thursday that Duarte will face charges roughly equivalent to embezzlement and conspiracy in Mexico.

Lawyers for Duarte have said the charges are politically motivated.

Mexico requested Duarte’s extradition in late 2019.

The former governor, a member of the once dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party, unsuccessfully sought asylum in the U.S. shortly before he was arrested in Miami in July 2020.

Duarte moved to the U.S. with his family after leaving office.

The United States extradition relations with Mexico have a history dating back to the 19th century, when Mexico became independent from Spain.

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Mynd44 Lalasticlala Seun

He must have learnt his lesson

Did he learn this Yahoo Governor work from Naija.... ?

Or Naija Governors imported the Embezzlement Spirit from Abroad ..... ?

A country that works, but y’all still hooked to voting your ancestors, the ones that can’t address a nation and speak technically about their economy….

Foooooools

No one is more currupt than the system of the western world

What a fvck?

Why are laying Americans extraditing their former leaders to US?

That is fvcked up,they will sentence them in their country