Mexican Ex-Defense Minister Charged With Serving to Cartel Ship Treatment to U.S.

MEXICO CITY—Mexico’s ancient protection minister received bribes from a drug cartel in exchange for allowing it to ship hundreds cocaine and quite a few medication to the U.S., and susceptible his dwelling to pass along data on investigations to crime bosses, U.S. prosecutors alleged.

The allegations were fragment of an indictment unsealed Friday towards Gen. Salvador Cienfuegos, who served as protection minister from 2012 to 2018 in then-President Enrique Peña Nieto’s administration and led the army’s war on drug cartels. U.S. brokers arrested…