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This article was translated and reposted from RÍODOCE
The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) declared the final sentence by which Carlos Manuel Hoo Ramírez “El Cóndor”, former secretary of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for organized crime to commit crimes against health.
The ministers of the First Chamber of the Court, by unanimous vote, endorsed the project presented by Margarita Ríos Farjat, in which she dismissed the appeal filed by Hoo Ramírez against the direct amparo judgment issued by the Collegiate Court in Criminal Matters in the state of Sinaloa, which confirmed his conviction.
The conviction was handed down on September 29, 2017 by the Third Judge of First Instance in Sinaloa, in which he was also ordered to pay a 250-day fine.
Hoo Ramírez is identified as the former secretary and bodyguard of the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, with whom he was arrested on February 22, 2014, by elements of the Secretariat of the Navy at the Miramar Hotel in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, after the spectacular escape from the Altiplano federal prison.
Witnesses said that El Condor was Chapo’s “shadow” and was with him in various places, such as Los Cabos, Obregón, Culiacán, Mazatlán, Puerto Peñasco, Durango and Guadalajara.