After participating in the trial against Genero García Luna, USA plans to free Edgar “The Devil” Veytia in 2025.
The above, according to a review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP for its acronym in English) in which according to the file of the former prosecutor of Nayaritwith prisoner number 60875-298will be released from the Ashland, Kentucky prison on March 10, 2025; months earlier his sentence ended on April 11, 2034.
Media reports – based on information from the BOP– that “El Diablo” achieved a reduction of his sentence after asking the judge for mercy Carol Bagley Amonin the Eastern District Court of New York.
Regarding “The devil” -convicted of drug trafficking- the prosecutors of the case García Luna They highlighted their cooperation against the former right-hand man of the former president Felipe Calderon. Veytia Cambero benefited from rule 35 by giving “substantial assistance“, in the case of the former secretary of Public Safety of Mexicoand against the former head of the Defensethe general Salvador Cienfuegos.
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The former prosecutor testified on February 7, 2023 against García Luna: he assured that the then president Calderón Hinojosa asked the then governor of Nayarit, Roberto Sandoval Castañeda supporting drug trafficker Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmánleader of the Sinaloa Cartel.
“El Diablo” also implicated – among other former Mexican officials – Admiral Marco Antonio Ortega Siuformer Head of the Special Forces Unit of the Secretary of the Navy, and who recaptured “El Chapo” in January 2016, in Los Mochis, Sinaloa.
The story of “The Devil” Veytia
During the trial against theSuper Police” by Felipe Calderón, Édgar Veytia recognized his collaboration – in exchange for bribes – and that of Sandoval Castañeda, with the head of the Beltrán Leyva Cartel in Nayarit.
In 2019, “El Diablo” Veytia was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the US for drug traffickingafter a New York court found him guilty of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana.
The former prosecutor was detained in 2017 on the border bridge between Tijuana and San Diego, when he was trying to enter the United States. After his capture, stories were published alluding to kidnappings, extortions and murders ordered by himagainst merchants and land owners who were forced to pay land rights or sell their lands.
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Veytia was close to Governor Sandoval since he was mayor of Tepic between 2008 and 2011. He was its Director of Public Security; Then when the PRI became governor, he managed to get Congress to appoint him Prosecutor for a period of 7 years.
To “Lic. Veytia” is accused of obstructing investigations and proceedings against certain drug traffickers, as well as promoting the release or preventing the arrest of other alleged criminals.
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