The American jury convicted the former Mexican security minister of drug trafficking, reports Radio Free Europe.
Genaro Garcia Luna, once the face of Mexico's war on drugs, has been found guilty of taking millions of dollars from Mexico's largest crime group, the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Garcia Luna, who was arrested in the US state of Texas in 2019, pleaded not guilty.
He could receive up to ten years in prison for the charges.
The verdict came after a four-week trial in US District Court in Brooklyn, New York.
Prosecutors allege that the former head of Mexico's equivalent of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) accepted millions of dollars stuffed into briefcases and delivered by cartel members.
He is the highest-ranking Mexican official ever to be tried in the United States of America (US) for drug trafficking.
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