Sinaloa Cartel: The key role Emma Coronel and other narco brides played in the organization

The wives of drug lords linked to him Sinaloa Cartel, What Emma Coronel Aispuro, played a relevant role for the operations of the criminal group, beyond the traditional role they had assumed.

According to an analysis of Business insiderMexico’s most established criminal organization has delegated essential activities to couples who have gone unnoticed for a considerable time.

Through sources within the cartel, analysts and accusations by US authorities, North American media have detailed that women have a affecting determining.

This is the case with Colonel Aispuro, women Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the Chapolike the husbands of twin brothers Pedro Yes Marguerite Flores, formerly collaborators of the former head of the Sinaloa cartel, My Yes Olivia flores.

The three wives were arrested this year and according to investigations by the American authorities, they acted knowingly, with the intention and consciously to contribute to the organization of transnational crime, for example, with illicit crimes. money laundering.

A cartel operator explained to Business insider that the arrest of Emma Coronelle It was surprising, but the charges against him, not so much. Well, the authorities often don’t pay much attention to the partners of the bosses.

Although are in charge of complex tasks such as money laundering, coordination of operations and they establish channels of communication with other members of the criminal group, officials or lawyers.

The security analyst, Guadalupe Correa Cabrera, told US media that the organized crime world is very patriarchal, but women have capitalized on their roles in this environment.

On the one hand, there are prejudices that make them think that they are weak, without meanness and incapable of engaging in illicit activities, but all of this is handy so that they remain low-key or do not arouse too much suspicion. . However, they have access to privileged information, in addition, they can go to spaces where the mobility of their husbands is limited.

For example, Emma Coronelle could go to trial Chapo Guzman and visit him in comfort in prison, while being investigated by US authorities. Correa Cabrera underlined that women continue to play a secondary role in cartels, but that this dynamic is changing.

The Sinaloa Cartel source told the North American Portal that couples’ participation is risky because they get sensitive information. He added that it’s easy for things to go wrong with the bosses’ wives. They still collect fundamental data for the organization, but they can sell it to competitors or collaborate with authorities.

After pleading guilty on June 10, Emma Coronel will be sentenced on September 15 at 2:00 p.m. local time in Room 23 of the District of Columbia Court.

Prosecutors suggested a type of sentence between 108 and 135 months, equivalent to nine or 11 years three months, for the former beauty queen because she accepted her responsibilities.

A statement of facts published by the US authorities describes complicity a woman’s benefited for 14 years with illicit profits, proceeds from the sale of drugs.

Although he also notices someone who orders received, had meetings with high-ranking criminals, bribed corrupt officials and was aware of his role in the transnational criminal organization. On the other hand, we see a person who sealed his fate by marrying him in 2007 Chapo Guzman.

Emma Coronel has been charged with money laundering; planning her husband’s escape in 2015 from the Altiplano prison in the State of Mexico; convey messages so that the leader continues to command the Sinaloa cartel; as well as his involvement in transactions and businesses with properties of the Chapo GuzmanIn this way, he sought to escape and avoid the prohibitions imposed on a person previously identified as a high-level drug trafficker.

She was arrested on February 22 of this year upon arrival at Dulles-Washington Airport. After her court appearances and without offering bail, she was held at the Alexandria Detention Center, where she has suffered in precarious conditions for 152 days to date.

Meanwhile, the wives of Pedro Yes Daisy Flores, who betrayed and sank the Chapo Guzman, were arrested along with three other family members on charges related to money laundering in Chicago.

Vivianna lopez, wife of Pedro Flores, known as Mia Flores; as good as Valerie GaytanMargarito Flores’ wife, identified as Olivia Flores, has been arrested outside of the Northern District of Illinois.

Along with them were accused Armando Flores, the brother of the twins, who served a federal sentence for drug trafficking in early 2000; Laura Lopez, Vivianna Lopez’s aunt; as well as Pedro Flores’ sister-in-law, Bianca Finnigan.

“The conspirators they allegedly laundered money using exchange bureaus, credit cards, money orders, gift cards, mailings to the United States and other means ”, underlined a statement of the Ministry of Justice.

The charges were presented to a grand jury in April of this year, but it was not until June 9 that the case was declassified. In the case 1: 21-CR-00371 of 17 pages, they are listed up to 13 transactions related to payments, transfers and purchases made with money of allegedly illicit origin only in the first indictment of nine recorded, based on a verification of Infobae Mexico.

The proceeds were spent on various items, for example $ 165,000 as payment of tuition fees for private schools for the children of the Flores twins; in addition to 99 thousand dollars in national and international travel by Vivianna López and Gaytan. As good as 80,000 USD for the rental of a residence where the wife of Pedro Flores lived. Including $ 11,000 in child support for a child of one of the incarcerated husbands.

In March of this year, it was revealed that the Flores brothers had already been released from prison for testifying against the Chapo Guzmán, former head of the Sinaloa cartel, sentenced to life imprisonment.

However, the twins allegedly committed crimes while incarcerated, after surrendering to the authorities to collaborate in 2008.

This is why they were presented formal remarks by Ralph Meczyk, representative of Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, the Inge I the Lord of the Sierra, who was the head of the bodyguard of the Chapo Guzman and defend your case.

As reported by the Northern District of Illinois, there is clear guidance on the double betrayal of the twins.

They hid their criminal activities, posed as collaborating witnesses and sank Guzmán Loera, but for years they laundered drug money through their wives, while claiming to be allies of the government. American.

In 2017, the wives of the twins wrote “The wives of the cartel», Use of pseudonyms. In the text, they describe accessing great wealth when they lived in Mexico with the twins.

They say their husbands gave them red roses, 10 carat diamond rings, vacationing in luxury hotels in Puerto Vallarta, and living on a mountain farm with a private zoo that included horses, monkeys, and a baby tiger.

Between 2005 and 2008, the brothers successfully distributed shipments worth $ 1.8 billion to Chicago, Columbus, Cincinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Washington and Vancouver, Canada, according to a State Department statement dated January 27, 2015.

They are credited with having delivered Vicente Zambada Niebla, the son of Ismaël Zambada García, the Mayo. Until 2019, the testimonies of the twins were key to catch 54 other members of the Sinaloa and Beltrán Leyva cartels; included Felipe Cabrera Sarabia, whose lawyer has confirmed new legal references against the Flores twins in Chicago.

According to data from the Drug Control Administration (DEA), the Sinaloa cartel operates in up to 50 cities in the United States.

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