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Tuesday, March 9, 2021

Abouzaid El Bayeh, High-Ranking CJNG Member, Arrested in Jalisco

"MX" for Borderland Beat

The suspect has multiple aliases, including: El Hermano, Nene, Escorpion, and El Arabe. He is often referred to simply by his surname Abouzaid El Bayeh.

Mexican authorities in Zapopan, Jalisco, arrested Juan Manuel Abouzaid El Bayeh ('Abouzaid El Bayeh'), a high-ranking Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) member and close associate of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes ('El Mencho').


His capture was carried out following an arrest warrant issued by a federal judge in Mexico City. Abouzaid El Bayeh will be imprisoned at Reclusorio Norte penitentiary. It is not clear if the US government has issued an extradition request for his outstanding US charges.


As reported by Borderland Beat, he was designated by the US Department of the Treasury last week as a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker. He was accused of having a high-level role in the CJNG's international drug trafficking and money laundering operations.


Abouzaid El Bayeh was sanctioned under the Kingpin Act, which froze all his US-based assets and prohibited US individuals and entities from conducting business transactions with him.

Background 

Abouzaid El Bayeh was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, in 1972. In or around 2012, Abouzaid El Bayeh got involved in drug trafficking activities with the CJNG. In a U.S. federal indictment, he was charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and methamphetamine from Mexico to the US.


He was also indicted with the following individuals:


• Oswaldo de Jesus Miramontes-Diaz, 44, was charged in the Central District of California in 2015. Miramontes-Diaz is currently serving a sentence pursuant to the charges in the United States.


Gerardo Gonzalez Valencia, aka, “Lalo,” 41, was charged in the District of Columbia in 2016. He was arrested by Uruguayan authorities in April 2016 on these charges, and extradited last year.


Jose Gonzalez Valencia, aka, “Chepa,” 42, was charged in the District of Columbia in 2016. He was arrested by Brazilian authorities in December 2017 on these charges, and is awaiting extradition.


• Ulises Yovany Mora-Tapia, aka, “Yiyo,” 33, was charged in the District of Columbia in 2016. Mora-Tapia is currently a fugitive and is believed to be in Mexico.


• Jorge Manuel Cobian-Gonzalez, 43, was charged in the Eastern District of Virginia in 2017. Cobian-Gonzalez is currently imprisoned in the US.


• Alfredo Galindo-Salazar aka, “Tucan,” 47, was charged in the District of Columbia in 2018. Galindo-Salazar is currently a fugitive and is believed to be in Mexico.


Abouzaid El Bayeh's sister Salime is also reportedly involved with the CJNG. She manages a business along with Jennifer Beaney Camacho Cazares, the wife of CJNG/Cuinis boss Abigael Gonzalez Valencia

As reported by Borderland Beat, Abouzaid El Bayeh's sister Salime was sanctioned under the Kingpin Act in 2017 for managing Bake and Kitchen, a bake shop owned by the CJNG and their financial branch, Los Cuinis.


Salime also held roles in other businesses owned by the CJNG, including the restaurant Mizu Sushi Lounge, pharmaceutical distributor Grupo de Alta Especialidad Farmaceutica, and the newspaper Unomasuno.


These businesses ran with laundered money from imprisoned CJNG and Cuinis boss Abigael Gonzalez Valencia ('El Cuini'). El Cuini is currently in Mexico and is awaiting US extradition.


In June 2020, Abouzaid El Bayeh's Mexican bank accounts were frozen by the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) after investigators were able to confirm his CJNG ties.


Sources: El Universal; SDP NoticiasUSDOJ (1); (2); Borderland Beat archives

40 comments:

  1. Damn, this is going to hurt. Next to the supreme leader are the money people in importance. Tiempos de hambre se le vienen al CJNG.

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  2. Most casuals don’t know. But the real top boss just as big as Mencho but with more business acumen is Abigael Gonzalez Valencia. The Cuinis clan are geniuses at making money. They also have the biggest comeback in cartel history. Almost decimated by the Zetas in Michoacán in the early 2000s, and then they quietly made it to the top again.

    -El Choclo

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    1. Cartel money is not considered "genius" acumen.

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    2. 5:32 why not? Business is business. Cuinis make millions. El Cuini was the head of all of it, the strategy and structure.

      -El Choclo

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    3. Everyone knows lmao

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    4. 5:32
      Because it's not genius level, you said it yourself "business is business".

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    5. Miren pinchis lavacarros:
      The Shackler family bought themselves all the US senators and congressmen it took to make their opioids legal and payable by the US government nedicare and private insurance companies (that must have invested on the adventure) to steal from their corporations funds Billions and Billions and Billions of dollars and then the people woke to make their addictive shit illegal...
      --that was the cavalry
      Then the infantry wuz brought in to peddle the cuinises shit where the cuinises and co. made off millions and millions of dollars and peisos the US government wants to take back anyway and anyhow...
      Nobody up there minds the violence, or the overdosed they call "addicts"

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  3. I thought CJNG had Jalisco on lockdown 🤣

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    1. It is on lock by CJNG but also the government pendejo

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    2. 5:31 ur a dummy ass pendejo saying cjng has Jalisco on lock...as far as we know ZMG belonges to nueva plaza

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    3. They have it as much on lock as cds has culiacan on lock 😉

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    4. 9:12
      BS! No comparison.

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    5. @ 9:21 In Jalisco, compared with Culiacan, Sinaloa is a war and it's not infighting between CJNG cells, it's between different cartels. To compare what happens in Guadalajara with Culiacan shows that you have no idea what you're talking about.

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    6. True i should not compare culiacan to guanatos, culiacan es un pueblillo vicicletero comparado con guadalajara que es la segunda ciudad mas grande de todo mexico, sorry guys 😎

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  4. Maybe I'm wrong but with his sanctioned he had to be the fall guy. I wouldn't doubt that the other 3 top operators or Mencho himself gave him up. He looks like he been hiding in a damn hole.

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  5. Arab + cjng lol

    Canadian girl💋

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    1. There's a lot of Arabs in Mexico especially Mexico City.

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    2. 6:42. Yes DF and Brazil, Paraguay, Columbia and Venezuela. Maybe 100 years ago many Syrian people paid to leave their country for Nuevo York but instead they were brought to Latin America in the ships

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    3. Carlos Slim Helu...
      Direccion Federal De Seguridad Comandantes Miguel Nazar Haro & julian Slim Helu "El Comandante Olvidado" of lebanese origins come to mind, they all about the mighty billion dollar, carlos inherited the springboard and he ain' ever quit

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    4. @10:13 Correct.

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  6. Wouldn't be surprised if Mencho is turning in "high level members" through his kids. Same as VZN. Cooperate, turn ppl in, get a reduced sentence. Food for thought.

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    1. It’s def possible... wouldn’t be surprised...

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    2. I thought the same thing, Especialy since his duaghter just pleaded guilty.a few day ago deff get me 🤔

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  7. The guy was caught in Zapopan I wonder if he had anything to do with the shooting that occurred there and was somehow involved. He might have tried to flip on Mencho and that is the reason their is a war on Zapopan.

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  8. El menchito and his Father Are Some of Mexico biggest RATS SAPOS TRAIDORES por eso michoacan has been a CAOS because lots of TRAIDORES Y SAPOS in that STATE 😀

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    1. Menchas have no powers like enrique alfaro does, he chose to make his own cartels as soon as he got to power as governor and stab his friends on the lower back, not out of decency but all about the greed, alfaro is the biggest criminal jalisko has ever known.

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    2. All OF 🇲🇽 is chaos because of RATS and traitors but IT'S MAINLY because a big fish on a CARTEL gets BUSTED and the closest to that capo wants to take his spot.. Happened with GUILLEN in the GOLFO. That's when zetas split and the ZETAS golfo war has been going ON.. NOW there is like 10 golfo cells AND like 8 zetas cells all fighting each OTHER.
      Look at SINALOA after CHAPO got sent NORTH.. DAMASO wich WAS really close to chapo wanted to kill CHAPITOS for CONTROL.. Even chapos brothers were fighting each OTHER for sometime
      NOW, in michoacan LA FAMILIA michoacana was 💪 but CALDERON was after THEM with a passion and after the government caught the big fish the familia split in many cells and some went independent

      The WAR on DRUGS is a losing WAR... Catching the BIG capos NEVER SOLVED the problem, JUST KEEPS MAKING MEXICO MORE VIOLENT and with more CARTELS splintering up.. Just SAYING..

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    3. @12:10 Very good comment.

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  9. Anybody have info on what's going on around guamuchil and mocorito? Mayos vs menores or beltranes vs menores?

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  10. Animo compadres!

    On Senor Menchos order I am preparing a spec ops task force from the most dangerous elements of Grupo Elite to attack the convoy escorting El Bayeh en route to the prison. No one simply arrests a CJNG boss in the heart of our realm!

    Caballero de Jalisco🏴‍☠️🇲🇽

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    1. You basically copy sicario 006 word for word pathetic no need for you

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    2. 11:40 sheraap!
      They may get a contract to help "Keepers of the Oats and Proud Boys" organize the next Chicago Pride Parade for the next job.

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    3. 11:40 I’m pretty sure it’s the same guy, there are even times where one character fights with another lol

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  11. The QUESTION is.. will be SNITCH?

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    1. 5:05 if he was snitched on, which I think he was, he sure will start throwing many people under the bus

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  12. Thats funny that some fan boys thinks that ndrangheta can compete with the mexican and colombian cartels! No shit! They are too limited because they recruiting blood relatives which in my opinion this is a Achilles heel for any organization! The musitanos from canada a good example of a whacked family! Also with all their money they fucked up regularly in their home country and gets life sentences lol

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  13. Crazy shit I saw this guy many times at Eataly in Los Angels where I worked for a short period of time. Big tipper, always with two or three guys. I always thought he was a wealthy lebanese dealing with cars or something like that. $$$$$$$$$$$

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    1. How are you sure it was him?

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    2. I talked to him what question is this.

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