U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon of the Eastern District of New York on Wednesday granted prosecutors’ motion to dismiss drug trafficking and money laundering charges against a former Mexican cabinet secretary, noting that the decision to dismiss came from “the highest level of government.”

Attorney General William Barr and his counterpart in Mexico, Alejandro Gertz Manero, on Tuesday released a statement explaining that Mexican officials are now investigating former national defense secretary Salvador Cienfuegos Zepeda and, “in the interests of demonstrating our united front against all forms of criminality,” the U.S. Department of Justice had agreed to drop the charges.

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