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Así fue la detención de Florian Tudor, líder de la mafia rumana en las Oficinas de la FGR en la CDMX
— El Universal (@El_Universal_Mx) May 27, 2021
Video: Especial pic.twitter.com/jZM2zcM4Mx
A video of Tudor’s arrest appeared on social media networks recently, in which Tudor can be seen physically struggling against the FGR agents arresting him. "They're picking me up, they're picking me up!” followed by "They are drowning me," as he is pushed past a security fence. "I feel bad, they are killing me!"
Following this video, the Secretary of Foreign Relations announced that Florian’s extradition would be very fast. However that same day a federal court issued an outright suspension that blocked Florian Tudor’s extradition.
So how did we arrive here? What led to this dramatic display by a kicking and screaming man? And what federal officials have enabled him to circumvent the extradition process so deftly?
Over the last few months, Milenio newspaper has done some incredible investigative reporting on Romanian mafia groups operating in Mexico. They have explored their ties to key Mexican politicians and government officials. Milenio has released audio clips and documents not previously available to the public. What follows is a brief timeline of the events surrounding Florian Tudor, alleged leader of a Romanian mafia organization called the Riviera Maya Gang which operates in Quintana Roo, Mexico. It has been compiled together based on Milenio newspaper’s sublime reporting and previous reporting by Borderland Beat.
February 4 2021
The head of the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) announced that 79 individuals and companies with ties to the Romanian mafia would have their accounts frozen. Florian Tudor’s name appeared on this list of individuals.
February 8 2021
Milenio newspaper released details of a document that was presented at a 2020 Security Cabinet meeting. The document revealed a confidential network of government collaborators linked to Romanian mafia groups operating in Mexico, based on information collected by the US FBI and DEA. The document asserts that the Romanian mafia had managed to weave a network of public officials and shell companies in 14 Mexican states, which further enabled their criminal operations based out of Cancun, Quintana Roo.
René Bejarano, who was part of the founding group of the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) and the former president of the PRD in Mexico City was alleged in the document to have strong ties to the criminal group. Although it is important to note that politicians from all political parties were linked to the Romania mafia within the document, including two former Cancun mayors. That same day René Bejarano publicly denied he had any ties to the Romanian mafia.
February 10 2021
Milenio newspaper announced they had conducted an investigation based on intelligence documents and top-level sources with knowledge of the case in order to reconstruct the way in which the network led by Florian Tudor managed to violate the financial institution's security mechanisms and defraud BBVA Bancomer in March 2017.
February 15 2021
Florian Tudor’s petition that he filed against the FGR was admitted by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation who agreed to process his request. The petition was filed on the basis that the search for firearms on a property belonging to Florian Tudor in 2019 that led to his arrest was conducted "incorrectly”. For this reason, a federal judge called the arrest illegal and ordered his release and annulled all the evidence obtained by the prosecution. The resolution was ratified by the Second Unitary Court residing in Quintana Roo.
February 16 2021
The Attorney General's Office (FGR) received a formal complaint from the UIF which asked for the FGR to investigate the alleged network of politicians and officials involved with the Romanian mafia groups.
On that same day, Florian Tudor released a letter in which he denies he is involved in the criminal acts he has been accused of. He asserted that those criminal accusations are being made against him out of a desire to harm both him and his family. Tudor says that he is an honest businessman who is dedicated to installing ATMs. He states that he had no involvement with card cloning at ATMs and that he is being framed.
February 25 2021
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, who agreed to process Florian Tudor’s request, officially refuses to exercise its power of attraction to hear the lawsuit he filed.
March 23 2021
A Romanian court officially ordered Tudor’s arrest on charge of attempted homicide, racketeering and creation of an organized crime network. The Romanian government requested Mexico's cooperation in carrying out the arrest of Florian Tudor.
April 13 2021
Mexican Federal Judge granted a provisional suspension to Florian Tudor. This provisional suspension temporarily prevents his deportation, detention or apprehension.
May 27 2021
A Mexican Federal Judge issued an arrest warrant against Florian Tudor. He was arrested by members of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR). Aforementioned dramatic kicking and screaming display ensued.
The FGR later stated that during the arrest, an agent of the Federal Public Ministry tried to stop Tudor’s apprehension. They also state that Tudor’s lawyer tried to beat up Federal Ministerial Police agents.
The former secretary of Public Security for Quinta Roo, Alberto Capella gave an interview in which he revealed the investigation into Florian Tudor had started two years prior to his arrest. He stated that Tudor made those years especially arduous through filing several lawsuits against investigators. Capella compared Tudor to the type of character seen only in movies, adding "it seems impressive how he was co-opting corrupt politicians to create a kind of shield."
May 28 2021
Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of Foreign Relations told the press that the extradition process of Florian Tudor would be very fast. However, Ebrand made it clear that the process is in the hands of the Attorney General's Office (FGR).
A federal court in Mexico City stopped the extradition of Florian Tudor by granting him, this time, an outright suspension.
Milenio Sources:
I know based on my travels that Romanian crime groups are a problem in most Western European countries. These crime groups are mostly pickpocketers, street scammers and financial hustlers. Their known as the Roma or the Travelers and members are from both genders. The work in teams to distract and steal or scam. Paris has a huge problem with these people.
ReplyDeleteYes, the majority of them are Romanian gypsies. Roma means gipsy. Florian Tudor is not a gipsy but a few of his lieutenants are.
DeleteRoma = gypsies.
DeleteNote: gypsies all around Europe don't mingle, don't integrate socially into society and are (as a group) part of the underclass.
Those 'indigenous' gypsies in e.g. France or Spain are not necessarily a problem, but those Roma which tour around as organized beggers and thief's are a real problem when it comes to petty crime, theft and the occasional assault.
Organized crime with guns, murders, kidnappimgs, extorsions and drug dealings are NOT their business.
Everybody from Romania is not a Roma. By the last name (and the looks) it is evident Florian Tudor is not. Most likely he is of the germanic minority ethnic group within Romania.
DeleteYea But certain minds like this guy has the same as the Mexicans he fell in with
DeleteAny way If he was saying blabbing nonesence while arrested he might be too Much in product and is a problem
Maybe being arrested was a way to tell him to wake up ?
I DK
just kinda think
they turn into pussys when being arrested is Funnier then hell
No, he's not a German. He's regular Romanian. I know, because I'm a German from Romania. We have German names!
Delete3:08
DeleteThe Roma people (gypsies) are not Romanian but a large ethnic group with no home country. They just happen to have a similar name as the country of Romania.
This guy managed to have more power in Mexico than he would have ever had in Romania. Pretty sick.
ReplyDeleteOrganized crime ALWAYS requires the complicity of the state (=accepting bribes). Romania is corrupt, but not on the same scale as Mex. Maybe that's why?
DeleteI kinda think Certain parts of all the world is currupt All """"""Just Like Mexico"""
DeleteNothing really new
2:42 Romania is more corrupt than Mexico. They even openly sell children.
DeleteDéjenlos pasar el tiempo aquí detrás de las rejas. entre los suyos siempre se burla de nosotros. déjelos pelarlo ahora. maldita sanguijuela. Call Moscow Tudor. Tell them white boys over there they're just a piece of our cake. We done iced it all up. 3 leches. Creamy style.
ReplyDeleteThese guys were able to steal 1.2billion usd. Wow! https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/boss-of-atm-skimming-syndicate-arrested-in-mexico/
ReplyDeleteHeres a 3 part series for anyone interested in the tech and methods they would use. Very detailed report
Part 1 -https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/09/tracking-a-bluetooth-skimmer-gang-in-mexico/
Part 2 -
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/09/tracking-bluetooth-skimmers-in-mexico-part-ii/
Part 3 -
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/09/whos-behind-bluetooth-skimming-in-mexico/
Aren't these the dudes that got caught stealing cards and pins in chicali?
DeleteThese articles are excellent. Bluetooth skimming. Periodic sweeps of all tourists spots in Mexico. He talks a woman out of using a compromised ATM. So interesting and worth a read.
DeleteLooks like someone forgot to pay the gas bill.
ReplyDeletelucky he didnt get a bullet from some cartel..
ReplyDeleteCartels let them Work there.
DeleteI bet that him resisting that way by kicking and screaming is out of fear, he probably was thinking that the cops would turn him over to a cartel and it would be the end of him.
ReplyDeleteMan..it is fake. He knows he is filmed and he know he can use that in his advantage with his lawyers.. The lawyers can use that in court and say that he was abused...
Delete100%. This was my first thought that crossed my mind after reading and seen the video.
DeleteIt takes balls to operate in cartel infested areas. I wonder how cartels have not picked them up yet and killed them all.
ReplyDeletePretty sure thats why he was acting the way he was
Delete@1:39 Cus they work together? Duh.
DeleteLook how much he stole and ask yourself again why they let him operate.pretty sole answer pay to play
DeleteSimple. They were paying the plaza owners. They most likely tried to short the cut, and got handed over. Everyone who is in any kind of business legit, or not pay Piso to operate. JMO
DeleteBecause the cartels charge them a fee for operating in México, for example, if the chinese or italian mafia want to have a presence in mexican territory, they have to deliver a part of their profits, of all the crimes they have committed in México to the mexican cartels otherwise, they will be brutally murdered or arrested by the police and deported to their home countries or extradited to the United States
DeleteThe restraining video here:
ReplyDeletehttps://mobile.twitter.com/El_Universal_Mx/status/1398038127697141761
Thank you. I didn't realize embedded youtube videos only showed up on desktop version and not mobile. Article has been updated.
DeleteScreams of regret!
ReplyDeleteFormer Quintana Roo public security secretary Capella , alias "El Rambo de Tijuana" is out of power but still crapping on our heads?
ReplyDeleteOh, pleese!
This guy was throwing a tantrum like an overgrown child. Looks like any moron can be a mafia boss nowadays.
ReplyDeleteSol
DeleteExactly my thoughts
Tantrum is the only way to describe it, for real.
DeleteEspecially in Mexico it seems, every retard can be a big player when it comes to 80 IQ browns, no wonder a bunch of spaniards genocided them all
DeleteTerrible law enforcement. Cuff him behind his back and put leg restraints.
ReplyDeleteand everbody had their pants falling off, dropping stuff
DeleteWonder if a cartel charged them to operate in the area but what kept a rival cartel from wackiness these guys ?? Weird Chinese and Romanians could operate in Mexico. I can Chinese cause it’s business with chemicals...
ReplyDeleteThe power was in the Sox he forgot to put on that day.
ReplyDeleteMy god read the articles before you comment! The cartel's let them operate.
ReplyDeleteI lived in Quintana Roo and this is big business in Cancun, Playa Del Carmen, Tulum. Besides skimming they have devices for in pocket to take down all card information of people near by. Like on dance floor at club.
It' not just Romanians. There are Serbians, Albanians, Turks, Italians, Brazilians & Mexican doing this. None of them are Roma gypsies! No mames.