The five drug traffickers of the Sinaloa cartel who lost their ill-gotten fortunes in the hands of justice

during judgment of the century, —In which was sentenced to Joaquin the Chapo Guzman to life imprisonment – the fortune the kingpin amassed in the affairs of Drug traffic it has also become the center of attention. US prosecutors then calculated that the money of the founder of the Sinaloa Cartel amounted to 12.6 billion USD, value of the drug that he and his organization sold in the United States.

Like El Chapo, several drug traffickers tried by American justice have seen their ill-gotten fortunes vanish.

Document 1: 09-cr-00466-BMC-RLM revealed by the journalist Laura Ley, indicates that the boss’s luck —Which is so far an enigma—was seized by the American authorities, thus, the life sentence of the ChapoThis was not the only triumph of justice.

Persecuted since 2001, Guzmán has done and undone as he pleases for over 12 years. In 2009, his name first appeared on the magazine’s billionaire list. Forbes, with an estimated fortune of $ 1,000 million. Guzmán was ranked 701st. The position will keep the linchpin on the list until 2012.

In 2014, Mexican authorities captured him Mazatlan Sinaloa and three years later he was extradited to the United States. It seems that more than winning, the last few years have been pure spending for Guzmán.

For being the first protected witness in the case against Joaquin the Chapo Guzman, Vicente Zambada Niebla, aka the VicentilloHe received a reduction in his sentence.

the Vicentillo, which occupied a unique position in the Sinaloa Cartel, to the point of becoming the natural successor of his father, Ishmael the Mayo Zambada, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for conspiring to distribute drugs in the United States.

In addition to his testimony against Chapo, Zambada gave the US government $ 1.373 million, as specified in file 1: 09-cr-00383.

The eldest son of Mayo Zambada He made several attempts to quit drug trafficking life when he moved to Spain and Canada, but ended up returning to Mexico for safety reasons. Finally, in 2009, he approached the DEA to quit the Sinaloa cartel and collaborate with the Americans. That same year he was arrested in Mexico City and in February 2010 he was extradited to the United States. At the end of 2011, he was already working with the prosecution.

Dámaso López Núñez, the Diploma, was the hand that opened the prison door to Joaquin the Chapo Guzmán, in Mexico, but at the same time it was he who closed it in the United States.

In 2001, the Diploma fully entered the criminal group of Sinaloa, climbing positions with the blessing of his compadre, El Chapo. After the latter fell in 2014, López Núñez led a faction that challenged the Federation crown.

In 2017, an operation by the Mexican armed forces located López with his wife in the neighborhood of Nueva Anzures, then he was extradited to the United States, where he was sentenced to life imprisonment, and $ 25 million was been seized, originating from cocaine trafficking. .

This year, after the arrest of Emma Coronel, wife of Guzmán Loera, Dámaso López obtained a reduced sentence.

In 2015, the drug dealer José Rodrigo Aréchiga Gamboa, known as Chinese Anthrax, pleaded guilty in the United States to the crime of drug trafficking. At the same time, Judge Dana Sabraw posted a bond of $ 1 million, which the gunman of the Mayo Zambada he had to pay the government of this country.

But the process continued and after having worked for years with the American prosecution “When he allegedly gave names, addresses and forms of operation, the magistrate sentenced him to 87 months in prison, plus five years of probation.

According to court document 3: 13-cr-04517-DM, the Chinese Anthrax was released on parole on March 3, 2020, after serving an 87-month sentence in the Metropolitan Correctional Center maximum security prison in San Diego.

In an unprecedented event, the shooter escaped from the house where he was serving his sentence. In May 2020, he was assassinated upon his return to Culiacán, Sinaloa.

the Thin Zambada, youngest son of Ishmael the Mayo Zambada accepted all the conditions imposed by the US government to quickly conclude his trial.

The young man was captured on November 22, 2013 in the border state of Sonora, while attempting to cross into the United States. Judge Dana Sabraw ordered the confiscation of her property: 250,000 USD, in the context of the legal proceedings against him.

In 2020, he was released after serving a five-year prison sentence.

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