Mexican judge accused in US with taking $2m bribe in international drug trafficking case

WASHINGTON: A Mexican judge is accused of taking a $2 million bribe in exchange for releasing a suspected Canadian drug trafficker from custody in an investigation into a billion-dollar drug trafficking ring, US officials said Thursday. Luiz Benítez Alcántara, 49, was arrested in Colombia on Sunday and faces a nine-count US grand jury indictment charging him with being an accessory after the fact, the Department of Justice said in a statement. Benítez was overseeing extradition proceedings in

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