Jesus Reynaldo, “The King” Zambada
Jesús Reynaldo “El Rey Zambada”, a former operator of the Sinaloa Cartel, was arrested in November 2015 and at the time, the US authorities came to offer 15 million dollars as a reward.
Currently, he collaborates with authorities from the neighboring country to the north, a nation where he was extradited in 2010. He is considered the main witness against García Luna.
Even during the trial against Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, he denounced the collusion between drug traffickers and Mexican authorities, in which he pointed to the former Secretary of Security as the main objective.
The “King Zambada”, led along with his brother Ismael “El Mayo” Zambad, the Sinaloa Cartel.
Edgar Veytia, “The Devil”
In March 2017, Edgar Veytia, a former Nayarit prosecutor, was arrested in San Diego, California, accused of drug trafficking to the United States.
Two years later, in September 2019, Veytia was sentenced in a federal court in New York to 20 years in prison, as well as to return one million dollars, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to manufacture heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana and distribute it in the American nation.
“El Diablo”, as he is known, faced life imprisonment, but sought an agreement with the Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, in Brooklyn, who also tried Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.
The former prosecutor was accused of aiding drug traffickers in exchange for bribes and using his position to obstruct investigations and prosecutions of drug traffickers in Mexico, including the illegal release of H-2 Cartel defendants, and blocking the arrest of others. traffickers.
