MEXICO CITY (AP) — A senior Mexican navy officer has been arrested along with a number of business leaders and government officials in connection with a massive fuel seizure in northern Mexico earlier this year, a federal agent confirmed to the Associated Press.

Vice Adm. Manuel Roberto Farías Laguna — a relative of a former navy secretary – was detained Tuesday as part of an investigation that began in March, when officials intercepted a ship carrying 10 million liters (2.6 million gallons) of fuel in the Gulf port of Tampico, said the agent who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment.

Farías Laguna is the highest-ranking officer arrested under President Claudia Sheinbaum’s crackdown on fuel theft, known in Mexico as huachicol. Such theft has long pla

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