Judge Issues Formal Arrest Warrant Against Osiel Cárdenas

 "Char" for Borderland Beat

This information was posted from RIODOCE 

Author | Editorial Staff

Date | December 23, 2024

Time | 1:08 pm

A federal judge ordered the formal imprisonment of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, alias “Mata Amigos” and founder of the Zetas criminal group, for his probable criminal responsibility in the crime of organized crime in the hypothesis of crimes against health.

The Attorney General's Office (FGR), informed that the measure was obtained through the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime (FEMDO), in coordination with the Specialized Prosecutor's Office for Regional Control (FECOR), in the State of Mexico.

According to the investigation, Osiel Cardenas belonged to a criminal organization “in which he allegedly exercised leadership and made alliances with members of various criminal gangs, in addition to trafficking drugs in the Port of Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacan, Guerrero, Tamaulipas and internationally,” said the Attorney General's Office in a statement.

After the evidence provided by the agent of the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF), the Fourth District Court in Criminal Matters with residence in Toluca, issued a formal order of imprisonment against this person, in the Federal Center of Social Reinsertion number 1 “Altiplano”, in Almoloya de Juárez.

Cárdenas Guillén was deported from the United States to Mexico on December 16.

It should be noted that, in the last week, an arrest warrant was served on him in prison for the probable commission of the crime of homicide.

SOURCE: RIODOCE 

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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.

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Osiel Cardenas Guillen, Former Leader Of The Gulf Cartel And Founder Of Los Zetas, Was released From Prison In The United States On Friday, August 30, 2024, But His Location Is Unknown

 "Char" for Borderland Beat 

This article was translated and reposted from RIODOCE

AUGUST 30, 2024 

Osiel Cardenas Guillen, former leader of the Gulf Cartel, was released from prison in the United States on Friday, August 30, but his location is unknown.

U.S. government sources confirmed to the digital media Elefante Blanco that the drug lord left the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, where he was imprisoned for the last months of his 14-year sentence on charges related to drug trafficking, threatening agents and money laundering.

Currently, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons lists Osiel's location as “Unknown,” even though he has criminal proceedings pending in Mexico.

Cardenas Guillen, registered number 62604-079, was as of Friday in the USP Terre Haute prison.

In Mexico, he faces pending charges of organized crime and drug trafficking, but the Mexican government has not notified him of an eventual deportation.

Previous records from the same bureau suggest that Cardenas Guillen could have been released on July 1, 2024.

Osiel Cardenas, a former leader of the Gulf Cartel, was born in 1967 in Tamaulipas, and became the cartel's leader in the 1990s, expanding his control over drug trafficking in northeastern Mexico.

He was captured on March 15, 2003 by the Mexican Army and extradited to the United States in 2007, where he was sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges related to drug trafficking, money laundering and threatening federal agents.

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Justice Hidden

Drug kingpin Cardenas’ sentencing hearing was wrongly kept from public view.

Houston Chronicle

Houston, TX - As bad guys go, Osiel Cardenas Guillen is one of the worst: Drug kingpin. Murderer. Enforcer. Money launderer. A modern-day Stalin, according to one retired Drug Enforcement Administration agent.

Over the years, Cardenas' control of the Gulf Cartel drug empire has harmed the lives of hundreds of thousands of ordinary people in this country and in Mexico — and in the most terrible and terrifying ways. From the hundreds who were executed for crossing him and his cartel to the untold thousands whose lives were ruined by addiction to the drugs he sold for profit, the evil wrought by Cardenas and his thugs has been appalling and pervasive.

Cardenas was sentenced to 25 years in a federal prison here Wednesday, but no member of the public was present to witness it. None of this proceeding, held in a federal courtroom, took place within public view. The sentencing hearing, conducted by U.S. District Judge Hilda Tagle, was not listed on the judge's public schedule till after it was completed. It was kept closed without any explanation until after the fact.

Even the terms of the drug kingpin's sentence remain unclear, since most of the prosecution was handled through closed hearings and sealed documents. It is not clear, for example, how much time Cardenas will actually serve.

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Osiel Cardenas Sentenced to 25 Years

Mexican drug lord Osiel Cardenas jailed for 25 years in Texas.

A Former Mexican drug lord has been sentenced 25 years in prison and made to forfeit $US50 million of his personal fortune by a federal court in Texas.

Houston, TX - Osiel Cardenas, 42, who formerly headed Mexico's notorious Gulf cartel, was arrested in Mexico in 2003 and extradited in 2007 to the US, where he has been held behind bars without parole.

Today's sentence followed previously-entered Cardenas pleas of guilty to five charges including drug trafficking, money laundering and threatening to kill federal agents, the department said in a statement.

US District Judge Hilda Tagle in Houston, Texas, sentenced Cardenas to 25 years without parole in federal prison, and fined him $US100,000.

In addition, ``the court entered a preliminary order of forfeiture imposing a personal money judgment against Cardenas in favor of the United States in the amount of $US50 million.''

Former Gulf cartel leader Osiel Cardenas being extradited to the US in 2007.

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Most Powerful Mexican Druglords

We have all heard of wealthy businessmen like Bill Gates – but there is also an underworld of incredibly rich and powerful men who control much of the international trade in drugs.

Their many successes makes one wonder whether there is any point in having a “war” on drugs – it seems to not be helping a great deal. This list looks at the most powerful Mexican drug lords in modern history.

Zhenli Ye Gon

Zhenli Ye Gon born January 31, 1963, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China) is a Mexican businessman of Chinese origin accused of trafficking pseudoephedrine into Mexico from Asia. He is the legal representative of Unimed Pharm Chem México. He is claimed to be tied with the Sinaloa Cartel. He became a citizen of Mexico in 2002.

Two Mexican Federal agents who were involved in the arrests at the Zhenli Ye Gon mansion were found dead in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, as reported on August 2, 2007. It has since risen to $350 million and a lot of his fortune found its way to Las Vegas.

On the Strip, he was known as Mr. Ye, the highest of high rollers. He stayed primarily at the The Venetian (Las Vegas) where he regularly wagered $200,000 per hand in the baccarat salon. He lost big. The original estimate by DEA was $40 million in losses.

They now think it was closer to $126 million — an astonishing sum. When authorities raided his home in Mexico they found $200 million in cold hard cash a photo of which can be seen here.

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