For its part, the prosecution did not inquire too much into the DEA agent, while the defense insisted that both the jury and the agent see photographs of García Luna with officials such as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. However, prosecutors showed a picture of Putin with Hillary Clinton.
According to Miguel Madrigal, García Luna maintained ties to the Sinaloa Cartel since Sergio Villarreal, The big onewas a state police officer, before allying himself with Amado Carrillo Fuentes, better known as The Lord of the heavens.
Agent Miguel Madrigal mentioned the name of Ramon Littlesince he indicated that he was part of García Luna’s line of command, for which he identified him as one of his subordinates.
Ramón Pequeño, who headed the Anti-drug Division of the Federal Police, faces three charges in the US for conspiracy to distribute cocaine to the neighboring country.
The trial that follows in New York to the former Secretary of Public Safety, Genaro Garcia Lunaalso involves two of his closest former collaborators who, despite not having been mentioned in recent days, also face four charges (each) for cocaine distribution in the United States: Luis Cárdenas Palomino and Ramón Pequeno García.
DEA agent Miguel Madrigal obtained reports that drug traffickers and corrupt officials met in a restaurant across from the US Embassy in Mexico to receive bribes.
It was about the Champs Elysees restaurant, located in Polanco, Mexico City.
Miguel Madrigal declared that at least since 2010, after the arrest of The big one, the DEA knew of the assumptions links between García Luna and the Sinaloa Cartel.
The agent indicated that after his capture, The big one He looked for it, as he said he had information about the relationship between the former Secretary of Security and organized crime.
Madrigal pointed out that on one occasion he saw a video in which he identified the vehicle of the then commander of the Federal Police, Edgar Bayardo. It was a white Jeep Cherokee, which was parked at the house of The king Zambada (did not specify date or place).
After the arrest of The king in 2008, Madrigal said he noticed some concern in Bayardo, who was assassinated in December 2009 in Mexico City.
The third witness of the day is Miguel Madrigal, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent, who collaborated with Mexican authorities for more than seven years, between 2008 and 2015,
He mentioned that after the arrest of Sergio Villarrealalias The big onein 2010, he told him that he allegedly had information about the bribes that García Luna received.
The trial against Genaro García Luna in Brooklyn, USA had as its first witness to Sergio Villarreal, aka The big onewho said that he was present when Artuto Beltrán Leyva, alias The Beards you gave millionaire bribes to the former Secretary of Public Security during the six-year term of Felipe Calderón.
A US Coast Guard agent named Cliffton Harrisontook the stand to deliver his testimony.
His participation was brief. She pointed out that during her work from 2005 to 2018, she was present at a seizure of 20 tons of cocaine in Manzanillo (which coincides with the one referred to by Óscar Nava Valencia in previous days).
Rabbit ended his appearance in the Brooklyn Court by assuring that “fears for his life”Therefore, he had no plans to return to Mexico or Colombia, since there was a risk that they would kill him.
Due to your collaboration with the US authorities, you could receive a S-visawhich is awarded when someone has cooperated with a law enforcement agency, either as a witness or as a cooperator.
Although Poveda had said that The king zambada she had betrayed him when he was arrested in 2010, she said she made peace with him. He indicated that after his extradition in 2012, she found him in a van in Washingtonwhen he was on his way to testify in the case of Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, alias The Mochomo.
After reconciling, he commented that The king Zambada promised to give him a music record, because he became a composer in a prison in the United States.
It should be remembered that on May 12, 2021, the Treasury Department made public the elimination of its lists of The king Zambada, so from that moment no longer in custody from the US Bureau of Prisons.
Surname zambada has garnered attention after a document signed by Judge Brian M. Cogan was released exposing possible witnesses in the trial against Genaro García Lunawhich will take place in a court in New York, United States.
