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In another round of appeals, Mr. Guzmán discussed sending a cartel officer, dubbed Gato, to bribe a new federal police commander.
"Does he receive the monthly payment?" Asked the king pillar. (19659002) "Yes," said Gato, "he receives the monthly payment."
Then, in an astonishing moment, Gato handed the phone to the commander himself.
In the recording, Mr. Guzmán told the man that Gato was from "the company" and asked the commander to "take care of him."
"All we can do for you, you can count on it, "said Mr. Guzmán.
The commander replied, "You have a friend here."
The jury has already heard some of the intercepted calls, without knowing where they came from or how they were recorded. Prosecutors played a call in which Mr. Guzmán had been heard negotiating a six-ton cocaine deal with a representative of a left-wing Colombian guerrilla group .In the registration, Mr. Guzmán negotiated on the prices and insisted on the dispatch of a "technician" to inspect the quality of the product before sending to guerrilla his initial payment of $ 50,000.
One of Guzmán's Colombian suppliers, Jorge Cifuentes, introduced the pillar of computer expert, said last month that Mr Rodriguez had promised to arrange secure communications for what would amount to the cartel, its system was operating on VoiP, or protocol Internet voice, Marston said on Tuesday, and was accessible only to network users. According to Mr. Cifuentes, Mr. Guzmán could have connected via Wi-Fi, even from hiding places in the Sierra Madre mountains.
But F.B.I. The agents were able to listen to the calls a few days after Mr. Guzmán launched them, Marston said. From April 2011 to January 2012, US authorities recorded a total of 1,500 calls with the help of Dutch officials. Those allegedly placed by Mr. Guzmán have been authenticated, Mr. Marston told the jurors, comparing the acute and nasal voices of calls with other pivot records, including a video interview that he had given to Rolling Stone. in October 2015.
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