Emma Coronel, Wife of Joaquín ‘el Chapo’ GuzmánArrested this week, she voluntarily surrendered to U.S. authorities to be a protected witness, Mexican and American media revealed Friday.
Anonymous agents explained separately to the Mexican magazine Proceso and the American portal Vice that the woman was ready for her arrest on Monday at Dulles International Airport, Virginia (USA), for drug trafficking.
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“‘She surrendered,’ ‘she called to surrender,’ ‘she contacted an agent with whom she had long been in contact to tell him she wanted to cooperate.'”, Are the statements of US federal agents collected by Process, which this weekend will expand the information in a report.
The arrest of Colonel, a 31-year-old Mexican-American citizen and “influencer,” has shaken the two North American countries over revelations.
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Just Wednesday, documents from Mexican and U.S. authorities showed Colonel’s failed attempt for a last and third escape from her husband, Chapo, after his arrest in 2016.
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) claims Colonel paid $ 2 million to Mexican prison official to reverse Chapo’s transfer to prison Ciudad Juarez from the Altiplano prison, from where the capo fled in 2015.
Colonel, who allegedly helped coordinate the Sinaloa Cartel operation, faces a minimum sentence of ten years in prison and a maximum life sentence, as well as a possible $ 10 million fine if convicted. of the criminal charge of drug trafficking against him.
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But Vice’s information suggests the arrest was not surprising. “Colonel’s surrender indicates the existence of a cooperation agreement in which she could provide information or testimony in exchange for indulgence in her own case,” the US media reported citing a federal agent anonymous.
Colonel’s collaboration as a protected witness could shake up the political landscape in Mexico, as in the case of Chapo after his extradition in 2017 to the United States, where a court in New York sentenced him to life in prison in 2019 for drug trafficking.
One day after the arrest of the woman, the president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Suggested a link to the trial against former Security Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna, of the opposition National Action Party (PAN), arrested in December 2019 in the United States.
“They add that the former Secretary of Security during the government of (Felipe) Calderón has been arrested due to receiving bribes from Mr. Guzmán Loera. Maybe that’s why he was arrested, “López Obrador said on Tuesday.
He later declined to take a further position on the case as it was a “matter” that “corresponds” to U.S. justice.
EFE