Mexican officials indicted for accepting bribes to protect Sinaloa Cartel drug smuggling.

The U.S. Justice Department has charged Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya and nine other current and former Mexican officials with drug trafficking, alleging they aided the Sinaloa Cartel in smuggling narcotics into the U.S. and accepted millions in bribes. The indictment accuses the group of shielding cartel leaders from arrest and directing police to protect drug shipments. Mexico’s Foreign Ministry rejected the accusations as baseless, while Rocha Moya denied the charges, calling them a political attack on his country.