Roberto Borge Angulo: Mexican fugitive exgovernor extradited

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Roberto Borge Angulo: Mexican fugitive exgovernor extradited

Panama has extradited the fugitive former governor of the southern Mexican state of Quintana Roo to Mexico.

Roberto Borge, who was governor from 2011 to 2016, was arrested in June as he was about to board a plane to Paris.

Mr Borge, 38, will stand trial in Mexico over the sale of state-owned land worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

He is one of several Mexican former governors who went on the run after being accused of corruption..

In April, the former governor of Tamaulipas state, Tomás Yarrington, was arrested in Italy after evading capture for almost five years

Also in April, the ex-governor of Veracruz, Javier Duarte, was arrested in Guatemala after six months in hiding

César Duarte, who governed Chihuahua state from 2010 to 2016, is believed to have fled to the United States in March following allegations of corruption.

All were members of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI).

Analysts say the number of high-ranking PRI politicians accused of corruption has hurt the party of President Enrique Peña Nieto ahead of the general election scheduled for 1 July of this year.

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Date Posted: Thu, 4 Jan 2018, 03:38 pm

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