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The corrupt influence of drug traffickers, long a problem in Mexico’s police forces, has been spreading into the top federal investigative agency, the country’s attorney general acknowledged Wednesday.
“We are starting to have a problem with corruption and penetration” inside the Federal Agency of Investigation, known as the AFI, Daniel Cabeza de Vaca told a Senate commission.
Cabeza de Vaca also said more than 820 people have been killed in Mexico in recent months in drug-trafficking incidents.
AFI, which is responsible for drug-trafficking investigations, was created in 2001 partly because of rampant corruption in a predecessor operation, the Federal Judicial Police.
