translated from Spanish: One of the 19 former police officers wanted for detours is arrested

Judicial sources confirmed the arrest of Eleuterio Pérez Romero, one of the 19 former federal police officers wanted for their alleged involvement in diversions of public resources.
This, after a federal judge issued arrest warrants against former officials of the then Federal Police, for alleged diversions of resources by 2.5 billion pesos during the rule of former President Enrique Peña Nieto.
Among the former public servants involved are also Frida Martínez Zamora, former secretary general of the Federal Police, and the former Secretary of Security of Capital Citizen Citizen, Jesús Orta.
The alleged diversion network was through the purchase of over-precioing aircraft, helicopters and patrols, as well as simulation in the procurement of these aircraft.
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In the first report of the Federal Ministry of Public Security, in explaining the extinction of the Federal Police, to transfer its resources to the National Guard, the unit said it had detected irregularities, which were notified to the Secretariat of the Civil Service.
Among the irregularities, the authorities pointed to an investigation to “peculados who account for more than 2 billion pesos“.
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Original source in Spanish