SIEDO, Subprocuraduría de Investigación Especializada en Delincuencia Organizada (English: Assistant Attorney General's Office for Special Investigations on Organized Crime), is the organized-crime division of Mexico's Office of the Attorney General

Attorney General (Mexico)

The Attorney General of Mexico is the head of the Office of the General Prosecutor and the Federal Public Ministry , an institution belonging to the Federal executive branch that is responsible for the investigation and prosecution of...

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History and Organization

SIEDO was formed in the wake of a 2003 scandal that found agents in the Attorney General's anti-narcotics prosecution office, FEADS, actively working for or protecting Mexican drug cartels. As a result, SIEDO was formed with 117 agents whose backgrounds and psychological profiles were intensely researched, in the hope that agents prone to Cartel corruption would be weeded out before they could enter the force.

Corruption Charges

Although SIEDO was intended to be corruption-proof, the Office has been rocked by allegations that top officials and field agents were on the payroll of the notorious Gulf Cartel

Gulf Cartel

The Gulf Cartel is one of the most powerful drug cartels in Mexico, and perhaps the oldest organized crime group in the country...

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See also

• Attorney General of Mexico (Procuraduría General de la República)
• Crime in Mexico
  Crime in Mexico
  Crime is among the most urgent concerns facing Mexico, as Mexican drug trafficking rings play a major role in the flow of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana transiting between Latin America and the United States. Drug trafficking has led to corruption, which has had a deleterious effect on Mexico's...
  
  
• Drug Cartel
  Drug cartel
  Drug cartels are criminal organizations developed with the primary purpose of promoting and controlling drug trafficking operations. They range from loosely managed agreements among various drug traffickers to formalized commercial enterprises. The term was applied when the largest trafficking...
  
  
• Federales
  Federales
  Federales is a short term for the Mexican Federal Police or any of its predecessors, including the Federal Investigations Agency or the Federal Preventive Police. The term gained widespread usage by English-speakers due to popularization in such films as The Wild Bunch, The Treasure of the Sierra...
  
  
• Grupo de Operaciones Especiales (Mexico)
  Grupo de Operaciones Especiales (Mexico)
  The Grupo de Operaciones Especiales are the operative tactical group of the Federal Police of Mexico. Their mission is to carry out a variety of operations such as: hostage rescue, apprehension of highly dangerous criminals, counter-narcotics, counter-terrorism and fight organized crime...
  
  
• Los Zetas
  Los Zetas
  Los Zetas is the second most powerful drug cartel in Mexico and considered by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as the most violent drug cartel and paramilitary enforcement group in Mexico...
  
  
• Los Negros
  Los Negros
  Los Negros was a criminal organization that was once the armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel and after a switch of alliances, became the armed wing of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel. On 2010 it went independent and had been contesting the control of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel. It was then the criminal...
  
  
• Gulf Cartel
  Gulf Cartel
  The Gulf Cartel is one of the most powerful drug cartels in Mexico, and perhaps the oldest organized crime group in the country...
  
  
• Rurales
  Rurales
  Rurales was the name commonly used to designate the Mexican Guardia Rural : a force of mounted police or gendarmerie that existed between 1861 and 1914...
  
  

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