The US has deported a former Mexican governor, Tomas Yarrington, who had been jailed on money laundering charges in Texas.
Yarrington, who was the governor of the violence-plagued border state of Tamaulipas from 1999 to 2005, had been sentenced to nine years in prison in the United States after being arrested in Italy in 2017 at the request of US and Mexican authorities.
The former governor was found guilty of accepting $3.5 million in bribes while serving as governor and laundered the funds in the United States by buying luxury properties there.
He is reportedly being held in a maximum security prison in Mexico near the capital.
Although Yarrington had been accused in 2009 of alleged links to drug trafficking and money laundering, authorities have not detailed the crimes against him in Mexico.
