Who is Tirso Martinez Sanchez?
During his testimony, Martínez, to questions from prosecutor Philip Pilmar, explained the operation of cocaine trafficking through freight trains from Mexico City to Los Angeles, California, Chicago, Illinois, and New York, but made no mention of it. to the defendant, so in the end his showers were discarded.
It is not the first time that Tirso Martínez Sánchez, alias “El futbolista”, has acted as a witness in the trial against a drug trafficker.
In 2018, Martínez Sánchez gave his testimony as part of the evidence that the US Attorney’s Office presented against Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The former owner of the Gallos de Querétaro and the Freseros de Irapuato gave details about the illegal activities of the capo who is currently serving a sentence in a maximum security prison in the United States.
After an audit, the Mexican Football Federation (FMF) detected irregularities in the cases of the Irapuato and Querétaro soccer teams.
The FMF disbursed 14 million dollars to buy the Querétaro and Irapuato franchises from Tirso Martínez Sánchez in 2006, realizing that he was a drug trafficker.
“El Futbolista”, according to his statements, was part of the criminal structure of the Sinaloa and Ciudad Juárez cartels for eight years, between 1995 and 2003, and pleaded guilty to distributing tons of cocaineentering the list of the most wanted by the US government, which came to offer a reward to anyone who gave information that would help to find his whereabouts.
In 2016, he was sentenced to prison for these events, but it was not until 2018 when he detailed the link between the purchase of his equipment and illegal activities, since he accepted that he used drug money to purchase them.
