Mexico investigates the origin of the weapons seized from Ovidio Guzmán

The chancellor MexicanMarcelo Ebrard, reported this Friday that the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) is investigating the origin of the weapons seized in the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán, one of the sons of drug trafficker Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán most wanted by the United States.

“(The Prosecutor’s Office) is investigating where, who and how these weapons arrived in Mexico. And Mexico is going to present the case in the United States because there is arms trafficking on the one hand and it shows that we are right,” Ebrard commented in statements to the media.

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Ebrard qualified that 63% of the weapons seized in the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán were manufactured in the United States.

“(We investigated) with the support of the Attorney General’s Office, especially Dr. (Alejandro) Gertz Manero (Attorney General of the Republic), who has been pending this with Senapi (National Intellectual Property Service)”he explained.

The rest of the weapons seized from Guzmán, he pointed out, were produced in various European countries.

“There we are going to work together with Europol, which already has a representative in Mexico, to locate where they were sold and how they got here. What do we tell them? That if you want to support to stop the violence in Mexico, stop distributing or selling those weapons”, manifested.

Ovidio Guzmán was arrested on January 5 in the northern state of Sinaloa, in an operation by the Armed Forces that resulted in at least 29 deaths -10 of them soldiers- and days of violent riots in the region.

The alleged drug trafficker, nicknamed “El Ratón”was provisionally imprisoned for 60 days in the Federal Center for Social Readaptation (Cefereso) number 1 Altiplano -also known as the Almoloya prison-, located in the State of Mexico, where his father was also held, who escaped from there in 2015 .

About the possible extradition of the criminal to the United States, which has been requesting it since 2019, a federal judge temporarily froze the process pending Washington filing criminal charges against him.

Asked again about it, Ebrard insisted this Friday that the process “will take months.”

Source: Elcomercio

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