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Interpol issues Red Notice for former Mexican governor

Xinhua, April 1, 2017 Adjust font size:

Interpol issued a Red Notice, the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant, on Friday for the fugitive former governor of Mexico's northern state of Chihuahua, Cesar Duarte, allowing his capture by Interpol's 190 member states, according to a press release from Interpol website.

Duarte is being sought by the Mexican authorities as it is alleged that, in his time as governor from 2010 to 2016, he led a ring of officials who embezzled around 6 billion pesos (about 320 million U.S. dollars), his successor, Governor Javier Corral, announced Thursday.

Mexico's attorney-general on Wednesday asked Interpol to emit the red notice against Duarte. It came after a court in Chihuahua asked for the arrest warrant to be emitted against Duarte last week.

The news on Interpol's website stated that Duarte, 52, comes from the town of Hidalgo del Parral in Chihuahua, and added two photographs of the politician.

Corral told the press that he had received information that Duarte was hiding in the U.S. city of El Paso, Texas, which is on the border with Chihuahua.

This is the second former Mexican governor to currently be sought by Interpol, after the former governor of Veracruz, Javier Duarte, was the subject of another red notice in November for alleged organized crime and money laundering. Enditem