The Federal Judiciary Council (CJF) rejected this Friday that Judges had agreements with some of the 29 drug bosses delivered on Thursday to the United States to be released, as the Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch said before.
“The Presidency of the Federal Judiciary Council rejects insinuations on the proceeding of judges and judges, and expresses its total disposition that if there are evidence, proceed according to law without exceptions,” he said in a statement.
The agency reaffirmed its commitment to justice and the rule of law and encouraged the holder of the agency to act through legal means of existence irregularities in the actions of judges.
The position occurs after García Harfuch declared that the 29 drug traffickers were delivered to the US for the risk of being released by judges or that their extradition processes were delayed.
“The security cabinet has information that there was a risk that some of these objectives requested by the United States government were released or continued to delay their extradition processes derived from agreements with some judges that sought to favor them as already done on other occasions and for many years,” said García Harfuch.
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Given these statements, the CJF denied any hint on the proceeding of the judges and reiterated its disposition that, if there are evidence on alleged irregularities, proceed according to law without exceptions.
“Under such conditions, in a rule of law it is conducive is to go to the corresponding instances,” he insisted.
The issue of transferring people requested by the United States government has been a key point in bilateral security cooperation; Although cases have been documented in which extraditions have been arrested or reversed by judicial resolutions, generating confrontations due to the solidity of the cases by the ministerial authorities.
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This difference occurs in the midst of the implementation of the judicial reform it intends, on June 1, to choose half of the judges and magistrates of the Judiciary, as well as the nine new ministers of the Supreme Court, among other organs, which has also fueled the discussion about judicial independence in the country.
With EFE information
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