รข€" The former governor of a Mexican state bordering Texas accepted millions in bribes from drug cartels and invested the money in Texas real estate, federal prosecutors alleged in two forfeiture cases filed Tuesday.
No criminal charges have been filed against Tomas Yarrington, who served as governor of Tamaulipas state from 1999 to 2004. But the civil actions allege that he "acquired millions of dollars in payments" while in public office from drug cartels "and from various extortion or bribery schemes."
Yarrington then used various front men and businesses "to become a major real estate investor through various money-laundering mechanisms," according to documents filed in Corpus Christi, Texas. The other forfeiture case was filed in San Antonio.
Yarrington earlier had served as mayor of Matamoros, headquarters of the Gulf cartel.
An attorney for Yarrington in Houston said he was reviewing the documents.
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