Brother of world’s most powerful drug trafficker accused of international drug trafficking
The US State Department announced Friday to offer up to five million dollars for any information leading to the capture of Aureliano Guzman Loera, brother of the famous Mexican drug trafficker “El Chapo”. Aureliano Guzman Loera, brother of former Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, is accused alongside brothers Ruperto Salgueiro Nevarez, Jose Salgueiro Nevarez and Heriberto Salgueiro Nevarez of international drug trafficking.
The state of Sinaloa in northwestern Mexico has long been a hub for marijuana and poppy smuggling into the country. One of the indictments from the US Department of Justice is fentanyl trafficking, which is responsible for thousands of overdose deaths in the United States each year.
The reward can go up to five million dollars for each of the four defendants. Joaquin Guzman said “El Chapo”, 64, was sentenced in July 2019 to life imprisonment, after a trial under high security. The one who was called the most powerful drug trafficker in the world until his extradition to the United States in 2017 is serving his sentence in a high-security Colorado prison.
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