Mexico City
Miguel Coppel Godoy, a witness against former Nayarit prosecutor, Édgar Veytia, who was detained in the United States for drug trafficking, died in a hospital in the city of Nayarit on Wednesday, Cecilia Dávalos, ministerial director of the state prosecutor’s office, reported.
“We received the news of the person’s admission to the city’s civilian hospital Miguel Coppel Godoy, who did not report vital signs, FGE personnel from NayaritInvestigative police and experts move, confirm the event and transfer it to the FGE, where the body’s condition is verified. “It shows no violent sign in its corpora integrityHe and the initial information from the health staff, it was possible to know that the person had apparently died of cardiac arrest, we cannot keep this information and we will do the autopsy to warn if there was any kind of internal injury, we have not completed the processing of the body, ”he said in an interview with MILENIO television.
The official added that since the man had taken precautions for his participation in the case against Veytia, his death is being investigated as a murder, although there are no signs of it.
Coppel Godoy was held in Tepic Prison, charged with extortion and kidnapping during the Veytia government. The former prosecutor is said to have asked to his family 300 thousand pesos to release him and the deeds of his house. Three years later he was released because there was no evidence against him, but this year he was again incarcerated.
RLO