Summary Vigilante leaders have accused Reyna of having links with the Knights Templar drug cartel.
MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Mexican prosecutors questioned the number two official from the troubled state of Michoacan, which was dominated by a drug cartel until vigilante forces emerged last year.
Jesus Reyna, the government secretary who served as interim governor for six months last year, spoke to prosecutors in Mexico City, the attorney general s office said in a statement.
The meeting was related to an undisclosed investigation, the brief statement said.
Vigilante leaders have accused Reyna of having links with the Knights Templar drug cartel. The official, who is part of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), has denied the accusations.
The "self-defense" forces were founded in February 2013 by lime growers and farmers fed up with the police s unwillingness or inability to curb the cartel.
The vigilantes have repeatedly accused local authorities of working with the Knights.
Reynosa served as governor between April and October last year while Fausto Vallejo took a medical leave for an undisclosed illness.
President Enrique Pena Nieto has deployed 10,000 troops and federal police to handle security in Michoacan.
Last Monday, marines killed Knights Templar financial boss Enrique Plancarte in a shootout in central Mexico.
The cartel s founder, Nazario Moreno, was killed by troops in Michoacan in March, leaving Servando "La Tuta" Gomez as the last top leader who remains at large.
