Tacámbaro, Michoacan treasurer resigns over sex trafficking scandal: “I’m leaving smiling,” he says
Ramón Raudel Campos claims that the charges filed for sex trafficking in the US are false and that he is leaving so as not to affect the administration of the Morena mayor of Tacámbaro.
Ramón Raudel Campos Murillo, alias El Chilango, returned to Mexico in 2022 after his time (a year and a half) in a United States prison for participating in a network of sex trafficking of women (including minors); already deported, he joined the Morena team that competed and won the mayor’s office of Tacámbaro: he has already resigned from his position as treasurer and -he says-, he is leaving “smiling”.
His search file details that El Chilango participated for at least three years (2009-2012) in the management of an interstate prostitution network operation with women of different nationalities who were forced to participate in sexual acts.
The operations of the network to which Raudel Campos belonged were located from New York to Virginia, so in 2021, after his arrest in Mexico, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) extradited him to the United States, where he was sentenced to 18 months in prison plus two years of supervised release.
Upon his return to Mexico, he joined the team of Salvador Bastida García, a former mayor of Tacámbaro (2008-2011) who in the last elections of June 2024 competed again for the municipal presidency, although now as the standard-bearer of Morena: he won.
Bastida included the convicted criminal in his work team as the treasurer during his administration.
When the scandal broke out over the investigation that led to his conviction, Campos Murillo denied the charges brought by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE) on December 13, 2011, which led him to be listed as a fugitive from justice for a decade.
With only a few months in office as treasurer of Tacámbaro and after the governor of Michoacán, Alfredo Ramírez Bedolla, asked for his resignation, El Chilango announced this Saturday, November 23, that he was stepping down from his position.
Source: INFOBAE
