Emma Coronel’s outstanding accounts: she tried to help “Chapo” escape prison for the third time

Documents from Mexican and American authorities on Wednesday revealed the failed attempt by Emma Coronel, detained in the United States, to a last and third flight from her husband, Joaquín el Chapo Guzmán, following his arrest in 2016.

Information from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) indicates that Coronel paid the Mexican prison system official $ 2 million to cancel Chapo’s transfer to Ciudad Juárez prison from Altiplano prison, hence the capo escaped in 2015.

In the document, Special Agent Eric S. McGuire assures us that The colonel gave $ 1 million to a person identified as “collaborating witness 1” to acquire a property near the Altiplano, in the state of Mexico, where El Chapo spent the first stage of his latest arrest.

“After Guzmán’s transfer, according to Collaborating Witness 1, Coronel told him that she and others were trying to facilitate Guzmán’s return to the Altiplano prison, where an escape would be possible,” the text reads. .

Colonel, arrested Monday in the state of Virginia, incurs a minimum sentence of ten years in prison and a maximum sentence of life imprisonment, in addition to a possible fine of $ 10 million, if he is guilty of the drug trafficking charge against him.

The FBI indictment indicates that the woman, a 31-year-old influencer, helped coordinate the functioning of the Sinaloa cartel while Guzmán was detained from 2014 to 2015 in the Altiplano, after his second capture.

The investigation revealed that Coronel helped organize Chapo’s second escape along with the king’s sons, including the best-known Ovidio.

Therefore, as the Mexican newspaper revealed this Wednesday Millennium, prison officials transferred Guzmán from the state prison of Mexico to that of Ciudad Juárez, on the border with the United States, suspecting another leak.

The media approved a ground survey of the Altiplano prison which identified at least five signs of tunnels, for which authorities have moved Chapo to Ciudad Juárez, where the ground makes it difficult to dig a tunnel.

Officials also told the newspaper that they had not allowed him one visit per month to the woman, who went to both the Altiplano prison and Ciudad Juárez.

As the FBI recalled, El Chapo was never able to get out of Ciudad Juárez prison and his extradition to the United States took place in 2017, where a New York court sentenced him to imprisonment in life in 2019 for drug trafficking.

Chapo’s first arrest took place in 1993 and 1995 He was transferred to the now closed Puente Grande prison, from which he escaped in January 2001 by bribing the guards.

Although Emma Coronel has been singled out for years of involvement in her husband’s business, until now she has never been the subject of a direct investigation.

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