Overview

• Judge Jesús Alberto Chávez Hernández found Cárdenas Palomino criminally responsible for authorizing and permitting torture to obtain information or a confession.
• The case involves abuses against Mario Vallarta Cisneros, his nephew Sergio Cortés Vallarta, and Eduardo and Ricardo Estrada Granados following their April 27, 2012 detention in Iztapalapa.
• The sentence bars him from holding public office for the same five years and three months that he must serve in prison.
• Three former Federal Police agents — Horacio Parra Rubio, Marisela García Toledo and Fernando Valdez Aparicio — were also sentenced to four years in prison.
• Cárdenas Palomino has been in custody since July 2021, his lawyers plan to appeal, and his term is projected to run through October 2026.