For: EFE Posted Jan 14, 2023, 9:37 am EST
The Mexican foreign minister Marcelo Ebrardreported that the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) is investigating the origin of the weapons seized in the detention of Ovid Guzmanone of the sons of the drug trafficker Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman America’s Most Wanted.
“(The Prosecutor’s Office) is investigating where, who and how these weapons arrived in Mexico. And Mexico is going to present the case in the United States because there is arms trafficking on the one hand and it shows that we are right,” Ebrard commented in statements to the media.
Ebrard qualified that 63% of the weapons seized in the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán were manufactured in the United States.
“(We investigated) with the support of the Attorney General’s Office, especially Dr. Alejandro Gertz Manero (Attorney General of the Republic), who has been pending this with the Senapi (National Intellectual Property Service),” he explained.
The rest of the weapons seized from Guzmán, he pointed out, were produced in various European countries.
“There we are going to work together with Europol, which already has a representative in Mexico, to locate where they were sold and how they got here. What do we tell them? That if you want to support to stop the violence in Mexico, stop distributing or selling those weapons“, he stated.
Ovidio Guzmán was arrested on January 5 in the state of Sinaloa, in an operation by the Armed Forces that resulted in at least 29 deaths -10 of them soldiers- and days of violent riots in the region.
The alleged drug trafficker, nicknamed “The mouse”was transferred to the Federal Center for Social Readaptation number 1 Altiplano -also known as the Almoloya prison-, located in the State of Mexico, where his father was also held, who escaped from there in 2015.
About the possible extradition of the criminal to the United Stateswho has been requesting it since 2019, a federal judge temporarily froze the process pending Washington filing criminal charges against him.
Asked again about it, Ebrard insisted this Friday that the process “will take months.”
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