In response to rising tensions between the two nations over the arrests, Mexico’s attorney general’s office announced on Thursday that it has not yet received in-depth data from US authorities regarding a journey that brought two infamous drug traffickers to the US last quarter.
In a statement, the company said it requested information from the US Department of Justice about the trip, including detailed information on its captain, the aircraft, and associated movement and customs authorizations.
Ismael” El Mayo” Zambada, a co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, was detained on July 25 at a New Mexico airport along with one of the children of his jailed Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Joaquin” El Chapo” Guzman.
Mexico is looking into the circumstances to see if crime was committed by a Mexican member who was forced to be abducted and delivered to US authorities.
The dramatic arrest was a significant coup for US law enforcement, but it has sparked consternation from the Mexican government, which was not given any prior notice and was n’t actively involved.
Zambada, through his attorney, has said he was taken against his would by El Chapo’s child Joaquin Guzman Lopez.
Guzman Lopez’s prosecutor has denied Zambada was violently taken, saying it was a deliberate retreat.
Officials say the two principal factions of the Sinaloa Cartel, one headed by Zambada and the other headed by El Chapo’s children, have at times had a rough relationship since El Chapo’s 2016 record.
The US allowed Mexican regulators to look into the New Mexico airport, but the statement said it had not helped them with the questions they still have, according to the statement from Thursday.
The journey is thought to have left from a secret airstrip in Sinaloa, according to Hispanic investigators, who added that they have located it.
Hector Cuen, a newly elected national senator, was the subject of the lawyer president’s office’s report.
Zambada claims Cuen was current at the confrontation between himself and Guzman Lopez, and he was killed in the confrontation. Sinaloan government, in distinction, had said it appeared Cuen was killed at a gas station in Culiacan.
The attorney general’s office claimed in the declaration that the state’s authorities had conducted a poor investigation into Cuen’s murder and that the murderer’s body had four gunshot wounds, whereas a video of the reported gas station murder only allowed to hear one gunshot.
The state prosecutor’s office in Sinaloa did not respond to a Reuters request for comment right away.
The disappearance of two bodyguards, who have n’t been seen since the arrests, was also being investigated by Sinaloan prosecutors on Wednesday.
When Zambada and Guzman Lopez boarded the plane that brought them to the US, US ambassador to Mexico Ken Salazar claimed last week that no US workers was on the floor.
” No US sources were used in the retreat. It was not our planes, nor our captain, nor our people”, he said in a speech.
