translated from Spanish: García Luna asks to take his process on 1mdd bail

The defense of former Public Security attorney Genaro García Luna filed a motion with the Court requesting bail from the former official, who is on remand for alleged links to the Sinaloa Cartel and Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán.
His lawyers assured that if he can face his proceedings at large, Garcia Luna would attend all court hearings and could pay bail of nearly $1 million, considering that the former official’s property is worth $1.2 million.
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According to César Castro, lawyer of García Luna, the idea that the former holder of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (AFI) during the sixteenth term of Felipe Calderón (2006-2012) may be given to the escape of American justice is unfounded.
“There is no real risk that García Luna will be able to escape, so he should be released,” argues Castro’s motion, who claimed that the former official has spent most of the last few years in the United States, his entire family is in the country, and his children hold U.S. citizenship.
In addition, Castro argued that pre-trial detention is used only for a limited group of defendants and only in extreme cases can the defendant’s freedom be denied, so he demanded the judge in charge of the case, Brian M. Cogan, consider the bail outing of García Luna.
The lawyer called the New York Attorney’s Office’s accusations of an alleged bribe by the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, with whom he allegedly found himself in a Mexican restaurant to receive between three and five million dollars to facilitate cocaine trafficking, as “absurd”
García Luna faces U.S. justice on charges of conspiracy to cocaine trafficking and lying to cocaine authorities about his criminal past to obtain citizenship in the United States.
However, their hearings have been postponed at the statement of the parties, who allegedly possess hundreds of evidence, and after the classification granted to the case by Judge Cogan, who has classified the trial against García Luna as “complex”.
The defense also argued that García Luna cannot escape because he handed over official documents, including his passport, to the authorities. In addition, all of its accounts in Mexico are blocked, so it lacks the resources to be financially stable in another country.
The attorney claimed that his client has committed to remain in the United States and be monitored by the authorities as the case continues.
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Original source in Spanish