A federal court definitively canceled the proceedings against Rosalinda González Valenciawife of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantesalias “El Mencho”leader of Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), for the crime of organized crime.
The ruling does not imply that the criminal boss’s wife is going to leave the prison where she is, since serving a 5 year sentence that was imposed on him in another process for money laundering.
An appeals court in Morelos decided to cancel the process considering that there were no elements to file two charges of organized crime against the boss’s wife.
The accusation by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) was presented just when the wife of “El Mencho” could already request conditional release from the process, a benefit whose essential requirement is to have served 50 percent of the sentence.
Last December Guillermina Matías Garduño, control judge of the Federal Criminal Justice Center of Morelos, sentenced her to 5 years in prison for money laundering, based on the transcript of telephone calls that were intercepted.
Shortly after, the Attorney General’s Office presented the new accusation for organized crime, based on the same evidence as in the previous case, but this time the case was unsuccessful.
In this matter, the statements of different protected witnesses who pointed to the sister of Abigael González Valenciaalias “El Cuini”head of the “Los Cuinis” clan, as a drug trafficking operator in Michoacán for three decades.
Rosalinda González Valencia was captured for the first time on May 26, 2018 by the Navy during an operation in Zapopan, Jalisco, based on an arrest warrant for money laundering.
On June 2 of the same year, she was linked to proceedings and justified preventive detention was imposed, as part of an investigation that links her to a network of companies and people who between 2015 and 2016 laundered more than 1.1 billion pesos in the system. banking.
Three months later, At the beginning of September 2018, he was granted provisional release with the condition of appearing every Thursday at the justice center in Cuernavaca and not leaving Mexico.
Because he did not attend to two summons that were issued to him on September 5 and 7 of the same year to appear before the judge on the 13th, the judge ordered his re-arrest, which was carried out again in Zapopan, on November 15, 2021.
Since then, she has been imprisoned in the Morelos Women’s Prison.
The wife of “El Mencho” He is still in jail for the sentence of 5 years in prison dictated in the money laundering process, of which he has already served exactly 3 years, that is, more than half of the punishment. Last September he requested a change of precautionary measure in this matter, to continue his process outside of prison, but it was denied. That ruling was appealed by the convicted woman.
Keep reading:
– “El Cuini”, the brother-in-law of “El Mencho” who has avoided extradition to the US for 9 years.
– The list of Mencho’s relatives behind bars that was expanded with the capture of his brother Abraham.