FGR Files New Indictment Against Osiel Cardenas

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This information was posted by RIODOCE 

Author | Editorial Staff

Date | December 19, 2024

Time | 12:38 pm

The Attorney General's Office (FGR) executed a second arrest warrant against Osiel Cardenas Guillen, former leader of the Gulf Cartel, who was extradited from the United States to Mexico, this time for the crime of aggravated homicide.

On Wednesday, Cardenas Guillen appeared at 12:00 noon before the Seventh District Judge for Criminal Matters in the state of Jalisco, to hear the FGR's accusation.

According to Proceso, judicial sources confirmed that during the hearing, the man also known as the “mata amigos” (friend killer) reserved his right to testify.

As happened in the first hearing he attended, for organized crime and crimes against health, his defense requested the doubling of the constitutional deadline to resolve his legal situation, so that the judge will have to decide whether or not to issue him a formal prison sentence no later than December 23 at 8:20 p.m.

The Attorney General's Office (FGR) accused him of the murder of six people in 2007, the year in which he was extradited to the United States.

Consequently, the Attorney General's Office has pending the execution of two other arrest warrants and the reactivation of seven criminal proceedings that have been held up since 2007.

The pending warrants are for organized crime and crimes against health.

SOURCE: RIODOCE 

Categories: El Mata Amigos, FGR, gulf cartel, Gulf Cartel Matamoros faction, Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, tamaulipas