El Menchito lawyer asks AMLO to intervene to avoid extradition to the U.S.

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Víctor Beltrán filed a complaint for the alleged illegal interference of DEA agents in the extradition process to the US facing his client

The defense of Rubén Oseguera González El Menchito , son of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes El

Mencho, leader of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), asked President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for his intervention to prevent his client from being extradited to the United States, where a District Court of has charges against him for  the crime of money laundering.

The lawyer Víctor Francisco Beltrán García, legal representative of El Menchito, went to the Attorney General's Office (FGR), the Federal Judiciary Council (CJF), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE), the Ministry of the Interior (SG) and the Presidency of the Republic to lodge a complaint for the alleged illegal interference of DEA agents in the extradition process to the United States facing their client.

In his complaint, he states that his client has been a victim of the neoliberal government that allowed the violation of autonomy in the determinations of judges and magistrates who

through "judicial terrorism" violated due process, as well as human rights for the benefit of the requirements US authority.

On October 28 he went to the headquarters of the FGR where he accused "judicial terrorism" and the alleged interference of agents of the DEA, operating in Mexico, in the extradition process against his client.

He notes that agent Kyle J. Morí was present at the Second Collegiate Court in Criminal Matters of the Thirteenth Circuit, residing in San Bartolo Coyotepec, Oaxaca, during the session in which the appeal for review 363/2019 was resolved.

"Morí told the magistrates of the second Collegiate Court that by presidential order they should deny the protection of federal justice in order for both countries to be in agreement," he said.

He said that his client, accused of money laundering, should have been granted amparo so that the procedure against him could be restored and 14 evidences that the judge admitted would be relieved.

Last August, a federal judge acquitted El Menchito of the crime of organized crime; however, he is still being prosecuted for money laundering.

A month later, in September, El Menchito was transferred to the maximum security wing of the Federal Center for Social Readaptation (Cefereso) number 11, located in Hermosillo, Sonora. He was held in federal prison number 15, based in Chiapas. [transfer images above right]

Beltrán García emphasized that the allegations are also against Judges and Magistrates who lost the autonomy of the PJF and violation of due process and human rights of El Menchito, "which has been repeatedly acquitted of various illicit acts that the past administration manufactured.", said the litigator.