Hernán Bermúdez Requena, alleged leader of the criminal group “La Barredora,” filed an appeal after a federal judge dismissed his request for legal protection against possible extradition to the United States.
According to the case file, reviewed by Infobae Mexico, the former Secretary of Public Security of Tabasco filed the appeal on March 19 against the ruling of Judge Daniel Marcelino Niño Jiménez, head of the Fourth District Court for Criminal Matters in the State of Mexico, seeking to have the judge’s decision overturned.
As this newspaper reported on March 10, Bermúdez Requena requested the legal protection because, five days earlier, guards at the Federal Social Rehabilitation Center No. 1, also known as “Altiplano,” informed him that he was in the process of being sent to the United States.
“Guards told me that ‘I was going to the US’ because there is an extradition order against me, which is reinforced by the nationally circulated newspaper articles that I add to this document, without me having been formally notified of said extradition procedure at the request of the United States of America to date,” he detailed in his appeal.
