January 15, 2016
A former Mexican state governor who once led that country’s ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party was detained here Friday as part of an investigation into money laundering.
Humberto Moreira was detained at Madrid’s international airport on orders from Spain’s Anti-Corruption Office, as part of a probe into money laundering and other offenses, a spokesman for Spain’s National Police said. Federal prosecutors in San Antonio charged five men who served under Mr. Moreira’s governorship with laundering tens of millions of dollars through real estate and other transactions. Four of the five, including former Coahuila state finance secretary Hector Javier Villarreal, have pleaded guilty and the fifth is a fugitive from U.S. justice.