Jesús Murillo Karam (born 2 March 1947) is a Mexican

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and

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affiliated with the

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(PRI). Born in Real del Monte, Hidalgo, he is of Lebanese descent. Murillo Karam was elected to the

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in the 1979 mid-terms (for Hidalgo's 4th district) and again in the 1985 general election (for Hidalgo's 6th district), and to the

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in 1991. He served as governor of Hidalgo from 1993 to 1998. In 1998 he became Undersecretary of Public Security and then joined the campaign of Francisco Labastida in the 2000 presidential election. In the 2006 general election he was re-elected as a

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for his state, and in February 2007, he was elected general secretary of his party with Beatriz Paredes as president. He was president of the Commission of Interior in the

. In September 2012, he was elected to the 62nd Congress as a plurinominal deputy, during which he served as the president of the Chamber of Deputies. He later passed his seat to his alternate to become attorney general. He became Attorney General of Mexico (PGR) on 4 December 2012 and resigned on 27 February 2015 to head the Secretariat of Agrarian, Land, and Urban Development. In August 2022 Murillo Karam was arrested over multiple charges (torture, forced disappearances, and offences against the administration of justice) related to the 2014 Iguala mass kidnapping during his tenure as attorney general. The case against Murillo Karam was later suspended by a judge who "openly admonished the new prosecutors for shoddy work". On 13 April 2024 he was released from incarceration and placed under house arrest at his home in Mexico City. * Requested a leave of absence to leave his post to serve as general secretary of his party.

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1947 births Living people Governors of Hidalgo (state) Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico) Politicians from Hidalgo (state) Mexican people of Lebanese descent Attorneys general of Mexico 20th-century Mexican politicians Deputies of the LI Legislature of Mexico Deputies of the LIII Legislature of Mexico Deputies of the LXII Legislature of Mexico {{Mexico-deputy-InstitutionalRevolutionary-1940s-stub