2023-09-20 14:40:38
Ovidio Guzman Lopez pleaded not guilty on Monday in federal court in Chicago (United States). This son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is facing multiple charges of drug trafficking, money laundering and weapons possession.
The 33-year-old man is being prosecuted for engaging in a “criminal drug trafficking enterprise” from May 2008 to October 2021, according to American authorities. He is accused of participating in the importation into the United States of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines and marijuana.
Head of the Sinaloa Cartel
Ovidio Guzman Lopez was extradited by Mexico on Friday. After his appearance in court, the defendant was placed in detention without the possibility of bail, the Ministry of Justice said.
Following the arrest in 2016 and then the extradition to the United States in 2017 of “El Chapo”, until then considered the most powerful drug trafficker in the world, Ovidio Guzman Lopez and his three brothers took control of the Sinaloa Cartel, to the detriment of their father’s former associates.
“El Chapo”’s wife released
Its capture by Mexican authorities in January, a few days before a visit by US President Joe Biden, resulted in the deaths of 10 soldiers and 19 suspected criminals during intense exchanges of fire in Culiacan, in the north. west of the country.
The extradition of Ovidio Guzman Lopez comes a few days after the release of the wife of “El Chapo”, Emma Coronel Aispuro, 34, sentenced in November 2021 to three years in prison in the United States. Sentenced to life imprisonment in July 2019 in New York, Joaquin Guzman is serving his sentence in a high-security prison in Colorado.
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