"They defame me" says Mencho's wife

Posted by Char for Borderland Beat from El Universal

Rosalinda requested the press removed from courtroom, saying, "I am not a criminal, I have been defamed."

Rosalinda González Valencia, wife of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, El Mencho, says she is not a criminal and that after her arrest she has been publically defamed.

During the initial hearing, held behind closed, against the wife of the leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, [CJNG] the Attorney General's Office accused her of organized crime, committing operations with resources of illegal origin.

The federal authorities identify her as the financial chief of the CJNG.

The hearing conducted before the control judge Iván Zeferín Hernández, of the Federal Criminal Justice Center in the State of Mexico, based in Almoloya de Juárez, continued for 10 hours, beginning at 1:14 pm and continued until 11:00 p.m.

González Valencia looked calm, apparently wearing the same clothes she wore at the time of her arrest, which occurred on May 26 in Zapopan, Jalisco: she only wore a black jacket to cover the characteristic cold that surrounds the Altiplano penitentiary.

Prosecutors from the PGR asked Judge Zeferín Hernández to take the proceeding behind closed doors, because the secrecy of the data they presented is critical to the success of the investigation carried out against the CJNG.

As part of the new criminal system, the judge consulted the defense of El Mencho's wife, who consented to the request of the PGR, as long as her  could remain in the courtroom.

In speaking, the accused who is the sister of Abigael González Valencia, leader of Los Cuinis, financial arm of the CJNG, also requested the release of the media and stated that she fears for her integrity.

"Yes, your honor, I ask that they leave,  because I am afraid of my integrity and I do not want the press to be there, "he said. "I am not a criminal, I have been defamed."

Despite the fact that since 2015 her husband and brother were appointed by the US Treasury Department on the list of drug traffickers, Rosalinda González has not been linked by that country with illicit activities.

Since then, she has promoted amparos to avoid being arrested and Mexican authorities denied the existence of any order for her capture, until last May 23, a judge granted the order that today keeps her incarcerated.

After her arrest, she filed another amparo against the arrest and incommunicado order, Fifth District Judge of Amparo in Criminal Matters in Mexico City who granted him a suspension so that she would not be prohibited from maintaining communication with her lawyers.

In addition, defense attorneys requested a certified copy of one of the most recent amparos filed against an arrest warrant, which was dismissed on May 23, the day the arrest warrant was issued, due to the authorities denying the arrest.

According to a video depicting the arrest of Rosalinda González Valencia, the elements of the Secretary of the Navy who participated in the operation also asked for the arrest of Jessica Johana Oseguera González, daughter of the accused and El Mencho, who appears as owner of the Tequila Onze Black brand, which was indicated in the black list of the US Department of the Treasury [kingpin] as one of the companies that supposedly operate with money from drug trafficking.