Arrest warrant for ‘Chapito’ for kidnapping is ready: FGR

The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) already has the request for an arrest warrant has been prepared against Joaquin Guzman Lopez for treason and already located the property where the probable crimes of illegal deprivation of liberty, homicides, injuries and acts linked to forced disappearance took place, in which the aggression that led to death is linked to the former rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS), Hector Nemesio Cuen Ojeda.

The Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office released a report on the progress of the investigations related to the illegal transfer of Ismael The May Zambada García, one of the leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, to the United States on July 25.

The institution headed by Alejandro Gertz Manero reported that the request for an arrest warrant against Guzmán López – son of Joaquín – is already ready. El Chapo Guzmán–; will be charged with kidnapping and also for the illegal deprivation of a person’s liberty in national territory to hand him over to the authorities of another country, transferring him out of Mexico for that purpose. (Article 123 of the Federal Penal Code), a crime considered treason.

In this second advance of the investigations, the Mexican authorities indicated that the FGR has managed to establish, with complete precision, the track from which the plane that was used for the alleged hijacking took off of The May Zambada, who is currently detained in the United States, after having been transferred on an illicit flight from Culiacán, Sinaloa.

Likewise, he indicated that the FGR located the property where the probable crimes of illegal deprivation of liberty, homicides, injuries and acts linked to forced disappearance took place, in which the aggression that led to death is linked the former rector of the UAS, who according to the version offered by the Sinaloa prosecutor’s office, had been murdered in an attempted carjacking while he was at a gas station in the city of Culiacán.

In this regard, it was stated that The federal institution has managed to establish, with precision, that the information about what happened at a gas station in the municipality of Culiacán is not acceptable, nor does it have the reliable elements of proof that allow it to be taken into account in the way it was presented..

They secure the property

Authorities said that the property where Zambada García was allegedly kidnapped, where two of his bodyguards were taken prisoner, and where Cuén Ojeda was murdered, is now protected by the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) while the respective investigations are being carried out.

The investigations carried out to clarify what happened with The May and the arrival of him and Joaquín Guzmán López to the United States, have allowed the vehicles used to commit the possible kidnapping to be identified.

The relevant data will be submitted through due process to the federal judicial authorities when they resume their work. Regardless of this, the federal police and ministerial investigations will continue until the corresponding files are duly compiled.