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US Prosecutor’s Office negotiates a guilt agreement with the drug trafficker Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada.
Images without Date of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García, provided by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) in Mexico City on August 1, 2003. (Free Press Photo: Press Office of the PGR / AFP)
The United States Prosecutor’s Office negotiates a guilt agreement with Mexican drug trafficker Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, co -founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, as indicated on Tuesday in a document sent to the court.
In the brief, the US Prosecutor’s Office emphasizes that both parties have continued to discuss a possible resolution before the trial to shorten the process, although it recognizes that the evaluation of a possible capital punishment for the accused is still pending.
In addition, he requests that the next Zambada hearing be delayed, scheduled for April 22, until June 16, due to a calendar conflict between the Prosecutor’s Office and the defendant’s defense.
Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, 77, is accused of 17 charges related to drug trafficking, in a case of “great complexity” – in the words of the in charge, Brian Cogan, who condemned Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán – that could even lead to the death penalty if he reaches trial.
His lawyer, Frank Pérez, admitted in January to be talking “to see if we reach an agreement” whose nature did not specify, but at the same time stressed that it was not negotiations.
Last February, the Attorney General of the Mexican Republic (FGR) revealed that the extradition of the defendant has requested four times to the United States, who had previously demanded his repatriation to Mexico on the grounds that they kidnapped him to deliver it.
For its part, Zambada delivered a letter at the Mexico Consulate in New York in which he considers that the Government of Mexico must intervene in his case and ask for his repatriation, so that this matter does not result in a collapse in the bilateral relationship between the two countries.