Emma Coronel, woman Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman, detained this week, voluntarily surrendered to United States authorities to be a protected witness, Mexican and American media revealed this Friday.
Anonymous agents separately explained to the Mexican magazine Proceso and the US portal Vice that the woman was prepared for her arrest on Monday at Dulles International Airport, Virginia (USA), for drug trafficking.
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“‘She turned herself in’, ‘she called to turn herself in’, ‘she contacted an agent she had been in contact with for a long time to say she wanted to cooperate’ ‘These are statements from US federal agents that Proceso has gathered, who will expand the information in a report this weekend.
The arrest of Coronel, a 31-year-old Mexican American citizen and “influencer,” shook both North American countries over the revelations.
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On Wednesday, documents from Mexican and US authorities showed Coronel’s failed attempt at a final and third escape for her husband, El Chapo, after his 2016 arrest.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) confirms that Coronel paid $ 2 million to the Mexican official responsible for the penitentiary system to help transfer Chapo to the prison of Juarez City from the Altiplano prison, from which the capo escaped in 2015.
Coronel, who reportedly helped coordinate the Sinaloa Cartel’s operation, is facing a minimum sentence of ten years in prison and a maximum of life imprisonment, in addition to a possible $ 10 million fine, if found guilty of the criminal charge of drug trafficking. against her.
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But Vice’s information suggests the arrest was no surprise. “Coronel’s surrender indicates the existence of a partnership agreement in which she could provide information or testimony in exchange for leniency in her own case,” the US media reported, citing an anonymous federal agent.
Coronel’s cooperation as a protected witness could shake up the political landscape in Mexico, as in the case of El Chapo after his 2017 extradition to the United States, where a court in New York sentenced him to life 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 of former security secretary Genaro García Luna, of the opposition National Action Party (PAN), which was detained in the United States in December 2019.
Add that who was Secretary of Security during (Felipe) Calderón’s administration is being held for receiving bribes from Mr. Guzman LoeraMaybe that’s why the detention is, ‘López Obrador said Tuesday.
He later declined to position himself further in the case, as it was a “case” that “coincides” with US law.
EFE