Commander H, Chief of the Tabasco Police from 2018 to 2024, alleged leader of the La Barredora Criminal Group, dedicated to drug trafficking, extortion and theft of fuel or huachicol, has fallen. Fugitive since February, Hernán Bermúdez Requena has been arrested in Paraguay, as reported by the Ministry of Citizen Security and Protection, in a statement released this Friday night. Bermúdez arrived in office when one of the current leaders of Morena, Adam Augusto López, was governor in the state. Despite suspicions about their criminal activities that compiled the intelligence bodies since the beginning of decade, no one ever acted against Commander H. until now.
“A joint operation of the Ministry of National Defense (Defense), Secretary of the Navy (Semar), Prosecutor General of the Republic (FGR), National Guard and the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection was carried out, in which the arrest of Hernán“ N ”, aka“ El Abuelo ”, alleged leader of the criminal organization known as“ La Barredora ”was carried out, said the agency. Financial and the National Intelligence Center, as well as the exchange of intelligence that makes possible the new Law of the National Research and Intelligence System, ”he added.
The Secretariat has also disseminated a photograph of Bermúdez, in which it is seen with gray, long hair, a beige and beard colored sweatshirt and beard. The agency has not given details about the journey of the former police chief. This summer, the current military chief in Tabasco, General Miguel Ángel López, revealed that local authorities were looking for Bermúdez since February, for the crimes of criminal association, extortion and express kidnapping. The military command reported, however, that Commander H had escaped that same month, via Central America.
The arrest of the former police chief challenges his former boss, Adam Augusto López, current coordinator of Morena in the Senate. Between the end of July and early August, the pressure against the legislator was rising. The opposition, dying in general, tried to take a tip to the matter. How was it possible for a governor not to know that his police chief commanded a criminal organization? As a politician as powerful as he, that in 2021 he arrived at the Secretary of the Interior, ignored the adventures of his old subordinate? But López shut up.
In a few weeks, the scandal climbed and climbed, to the point of arriving, at the end of July, to the morning press conferences of the president, Claudia Sheinbaum. Asked about it, the president said that her government would not protect anyone. “If the Prosecutor’s Office has any evidence against someone who is a brunette militant or not, go ahead, to continue the investigation,” he said.
López has tried to take importance to the matter. First was silence, but, with the scandal grown, he gave an interview to try to explain. In a granted to Radio formula, He said: “I have political adversaries from inside, outside and now those in front. As they say in the town, so great is the toad, that is how big it is the pedrada.”
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