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‘El Nini’ is transferred to a maximum security prison in Mexico pending extradition

Nestor Isidro Pérez Salas, alias ‘Nini‘, alleged head of security for the criminal group’Los Chapitos‘, received this Thursday a provisional arrest of at least 60 days and was transferred to a maximum security prison in the central state of Mexico.

This same time is what the authorities of the U.S present the formal extradition of the Mexican criminal who worked in the cartel led by the sons of the Mexican drug trafficker ‘El Chapo’ Guzman.

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This, after a Mexican judge based in Mexico City would halt any attempt to extradite or deport him immediately.

The supposed security chief of ‘Los Chapitos‘was arrested on Wednesday by police Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) in the city of Culiacan and was transferred to a prison in Mexico City.

However, after a hearing lasting almost two hours, the control judge at the Federal Criminal Justice Center of Reclusorio Norte Gustavo Aquiles Villasenordecided to keepNini‘, but decided to transfer it to Altiplano Prison for its high profile.

Pérez Salas was one of the most wanted criminals in the world. Mexico It is USAfor which United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA, in English) offered a reward of 3 million dollars for the criminal, captured in an operation in northern Mexico.

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‘El Nini’ is credited with the controversial ‘strategy’culiacanazo‘, operation in which federal forces arrested on October 17, 2019 Ovid Guzmanbut released him hours later due to violent acts by the Sinaloa Cartel.

His arrest follows the arrest and transfer to the United States of Ovidio Guzmán in early 2023, who arrived in the United States after being extradited from Mexico, after being one of the country’s most wanted drug traffickers. washingtonfor its participation in drug trafficking fentanyl.

Source: Elcomercio

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