Why Cristina Pereyra, wife of Genaro García Luna, would be the only witness to testify in his favor during the trial in the United States

At the end of the first day of the trial that Genaro García Luna faces in the United States for his alleged cooperation with the Sinaloa cartel for drug trafficking, the former Secretary of Public Security of Mexico left the cold and tasteless walls of the eighth floor of the Eastern District Court of New York send a kiss to his wife while on his lips was read a “I like you”.

Linda Cristina Pereyra Galvez accompanied the former head of the Federal Investigation Agency (AFI) not only during the period in which he held public office, but also now that he has become Mexico’s top official will stand trial by the United States government.

However, the support that the wife of Genaro Garcia Luna gave him is not limited to the sole emotional sphere because, from now on, Cristina Pereyra will become the only witness to take the floor to testify in favor of her husband before US judge Brian Cogan, according to information provided to journalist Ciro Gómez Leyva and Picture Television.

In a special coverage that the aforementioned media carried out on the trial of Genaro García Luna, the journalist Marco Silva reported that ex-Mexican official’s wife confirms she will become sole defense witness in the controversial legal process facing the former head of the Department of Public Safety in the United States.

For her part, Cristina Pereyra assured that she is the right person to testify in favor of her husband on the witness stand, since accompanied him in various key episodes which were mentioned by the leaders of organized crime summoned to testify throughout the three weeks that the presentation of the arguments lasted.

One of the episodes that the wife of Genaro García Luna claims to have witnessed is that of the alleged elevator oh kidnapping that the former official crossed by members of the Beltrán Leyva cartel in the state of Morelos. In the same way, Linda Cristina Pereyra Gálvez also knows the story of the millionaire property that the family owns in the city of Miami, which the U.S. Attorney’s Office charges he was bought off with drug trafficking money.

Genaro García Luna’s wife will speak after reynaldo The king zambadaIshmael’s brother May Zambada, conclude your testimony as two other witnesses the prosecution has pointed to as a brief attendance.

In this way, Cristina Pereyra is consolidated as the last key and have it up your sleeve who owns the legal defense of Genaro García Luna to dismiss the multiple accusations that arose throughout the trial against the one who was at the time the head of the maximum police in Mexico.

Recall that Linda Cristina Pereyra Gálvez married Genaro García Luna in 2008. Both had two children: Genaro and Luna.

Although the marriage they built was based on the emotional support the former Mexican official’s wife gave him, Linda Cristina Pereyra would also have participated in economic operations that helped to increase the family fortune according to what was exposed by the journalist J. Jesús Lemus in his book El Licenciado.

A restaurant called “Los Cedros”, located in the office of the mayor of Xochimilco, was registered in the name of owner Linda Cristina Pereyra Gálvez before the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property under file number 878390 on August 28, 2007.

However, according to the journalist, the Tax Administration System (SAT) pardoned the García Luna family for paying taxes for 4 million 741 thousand pesos in 2010, just when García Luna was already considered the strongest man in the Calderón government.

Later, when García Luna went to live in the United States at the end of his public administration, completely changing his standard of living, Pereyra Gálvez opened two new businesses in Miami: Operator of Los Cedros Restaurant and Beverage and Los Cedros and Best Friends Group LLC.

Likewise, Linda Cristina participated in a third company: Nunvav Inc.., founded in 2011 in Panama. Santiago Nieto, former head of Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) exposed in 2019 that through this company, and through inaccurate contracts, more than 2 thousand 742 million pesos were obtained from the Treasury.