Alejandro Poiré Romero, spokesman of Mexico's National Security, said that the arrest of Jorge Hank Rhon this weekend was not for political reasons. He said that the political use of the justice system "does not correspond to modern times, and much less to the federal government."
Hank, former governor of Tijuana and multimillionaire, was arrested at his home early Saturday morning for illegal possession of firearms. He is the son of Carlos Hank González, a prominent politician of Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party.
A 1999 report from the United States Drug Intelligence Center characterized Hank as an accomplice to smugglers, but the report was incomplete and never officially adopted. Hank has said many times that he is so rich, he has no need to be corrupt.
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