A magistrate judge in Brooklyn, New York decided Tuesday that former Mexican cabinet member Genaro García Luna will stay in jail, finding that the 51-year-old’s lawyer had not proved that his client was at high risk during the COVID-19 outbreak.

García Luna is accused of assisting the powerful Sinaloa cartel while he served as Mexico’s secretary of public security between 2006 and 2012, according to prosecutors who have linked his case to the powerful convicted drug kingpin known as El Chapo.