MEXICO CITY (AP) — The governor of Mexico’s northern Sinaloa state said that he would temporarily resign after the United States charged him and nine other officials with drug trafficking in a bombshell indictment that has shaken the political establishment.

In a short video announcement posted at midnight Friday, Gov. Rubén Rocha Moya, a high-ranking member of Mexico’s progressive ruling party Morena, denied accusations that he protected the powerful Sinaloa cartel and helped it smuggle drugs into the U.S. in exchange for millions of dollars in bribes.

“My conscience is clear,” he said.…