MEXICO CITY: The US embassy in Mexico mentioned on Friday (Aug 9) that Joaquin Guzman Lopez, the son of the notorious cartel kingpin “El Chapo,” had surrendered voluntarily whereas his father’s former companion Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada appeared to have been taken towards his will.
Each Zambada and Guzman Lopez have pleaded not responsible to drug trafficking costs in the US and their attorneys supplied contrasting variations of their arrests.
Zambada’s lawyer mentioned Guzman Lopez and 6 males in army uniforms “forcibly kidnapped” his consumer close to the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan and flew him to the US towards his will. The Guzman household lawyer denied a kidnapping and known as it a voluntary give up after prolonged negotiations.
The murky circumstances resulting in the Sinaloa Cartel members’ US arrest final month brought about Mexico’s president to reproach the Latin American nation’s neighbor for lack of cooperation.
“No US assets have been used within the give up. It was not our aircraft, nor our pilot, nor our folks,” the embassy mentioned in an announcement.
It added that no flight plan had been shared with US authorities and the pilot was neither a US citizen and nor had he been employed by the US authorities.
“This represents a terrific victory for each nations,” the embassy mentioned within the assertion. “It’s the results of a really exact work primarily based on the rules of respect for our respective sovereignties and we do that work as companions.”
