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As we saw recently, “El Mayo” Zambada issued a statement via a letter through his lawyer Frank Perez detailing the events leading to and accusations against government officials.
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Below are key translated portions of the letter provided by Luna’s lawyer.
6 Month Cooperation Deal
“After the arrest and during the first few days I was repeatedly offered a deal with the New York Attorney’s Office to charge me with crimes related to drug trafficking in exchange for being detained for a short time (6 months) and receive financial benefits in this way to become a witness.”
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Denial of Trial Evidence
“In February 2023, I went to trial. As is public knowledge, the prosecutors did not present a single piece of evidence or proof of the crimes that were being indicated-essentially crimes linked to drug trafficking. They did not present any documents, photographs, videos, audio, telephone communication records, tax or financial documents, bank accounts, or any record of contact with any member of the drug trade or their family, as the Mexican government claimed.”
“Similarly, in Mexico, a Collegial Court of the Judiciary ruled in October 2023 (after a trial) that there was no evidence to prove illegal income in my assets prior to 2012, during more than 20 years that I served as a public official. In short, both in the U.S. and Mexico, the respective judicial branches ruled that my assets of more than 20 years are legal, that there is not a single peso-dollar linked to drug trafficking.”
“These witnesses were arrested, imprisoned without escaping, and extradited in the same period of time that I was Secretary of Public Security of Mexico.”
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Accusing AMLO of Working with Traffickers
“…President of Mexico Andrés López Obrador and his operators with the leaders of drug trafficking and their families, particularly with drug traffickers who were used as witnesses against me during the trial, who even during the trial accused President Lopez Obrador and his operators of being linked to them and drug trafficking.”
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AMLO’s Response
Following the allegations made by former Secretary of Security Genaro García Luna, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador challenged him to present evidence of his alleged links to drug trafficking, “so that he does not fail, to ask his friends at the DEA and the U.S. State Department for the information.”
President López Obrador said that if, as Garcia Luna says, he is innocent, “why doesn’t Calderón defend him? Then those who rewarded him, the United States Embassy in Mexico, the DEA, of course the State Department, the Department of Justice in the United States.”