Zhi Dong Zhang Used a Tunnel to Escape House Arrest in Mexico the Day US Issued New Arrest Warrant

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An important Chinese money launderer linked to both the Sinaloa Cartel and CJNG, escaped from his house arrest in Mexico City on the same day that a US Federal Court ordered a new arrest warrant against him for money laundering.

Zhi Dong Zhang, a Chinese national known by multiple aliases (including Brother Wang, BW, Pancho, and Chino), was under house arrest in a building in the Lomas de Padierna neighborhood of Tlalpan, CDMX.

It was there that he escaped through a tunnel on July 11.

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Emma Coronel's Brother Edgar Acquitted for His Alleged Involvement in "El Chapo's" 2015 Prison Escape

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Édgar Coronel Aispuro, brother of Emma Coronel, was acquitted for his alleged involvement in the escape of his brother-in-law Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán from Altiplano prison in July 2015.

He had been arrested back in October 2015 in Sinaloa along with Héctor Carrasco Ruiz, while he was transporting a monkey called “Botas” for his twin nieces, daughters of "El Chapo." Mexican authorities were keeping an eye on where the monkey was being moved to.

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