MEXICO CITY (AP) — Authorities are trying to detain the embattled former governor of Veracruz state who is under investigation for alleged corruption and whose whereabouts are unknown, a senior Mexican official said Wednesday.
Interior Secretary Miguel Angel Osorio Chong told Radio Formula that officials are not sure where Duarte is, but believe he is in the country because immigration authorities have no record of him departing.
Critics say vast sums of state funds disappeared during the nearly six years Duarte led Veracruz, which has been plagued by rising drug gang violence as the Zetas and Jalisco New Generation cartels war for control in the Gulf Coast state.
