Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office (FGR) announced Wednesday that it will request the arrest of a son of Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán, whom it accuses of the alleged kidnapping of drug trafficker Ismael El Mayo Zambada, in order to hand him over to the United States.
The agency also said it identified the runway from which the private plane in which Joaquín Guzmán López – one of the so-called Chapitos – and Zambada took off on July 25 bound for New Mexico, in the United States, where they were captured by federal agents.
“The request for an arrest warrant for kidnapping and also for the illegal deprivation of liberty of a person in national territory is prepared to hand him over to the authorities of another country,” the FGR said, without detailing the location of the airstrip.
The Mexican and U.S. governments deny having planned the operation that ended with the arrest of El Mayo, 76, who founded the Sinaloa Cartel along with El Chapo Guzmán, sentenced to life in prison in the United States.
The announcements by the Mexican Attorney General’s Office give credence to Zambada’s version, spread through his lawyer, that he was kidnapped and handed over by Guzmán López during a meeting to which he had been invited to mediate in a conflict between the governor of Sinaloa, Rubén Rocha, and the congressman-elect Héctor Cuén.
Rocha, a fellow supporter of Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, denied any complicity with the criminals and said that he was in Los Angeles, USA, on the day of the events.
According to El Mayo, for whom Washington was offering 15 million dollars, Cuén was killed at the meeting place, near the city of Culiacán, capital of Sinaloa. In the letter in which he denounced his kidnapping, Zambada said that he went to the place with four bodyguards, including an alleged police chief of Sinaloa, who is missing.
In this regard, the FGR also said that it located “the property where the probable crimes of illegal deprivation of liberty, homicides, injuries and acts linked to forced disappearance took place.” Likewise, the FGR again contradicted the version of the Sinaloa Prosecutor’s Office that Cuén was murdered at a gas station in Culiacán during an alleged robbery attempt.
Rocha confirmed on August 19 that ten people had been killed days earlier in connection with the capture of El Mayo, after which 600 soldiers were deployed to reinforce security in Culiacán, in addition to 400 previously sent.
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