Joaquín Guzmán López, alias ‘El Güero Moreno’ and son of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmánis the center of an extensive investigation by the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) that indicates him as the leader of a criminal network dedicated to money laundering and trafficking of chemical precursors.
According to information released by the journalist Antonio Nietoknown in
The institution in charge of prosecutor Alejandro Gertz Manero The investigation would have started in August 2023 with the help of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Organized Crime (FEMDO), a year before the member of “Los Chapitos” He will surrender to the authorities of the United States, where he is currently imprisoned.
According to the documents and the information leaked by the journalist, Guzmán López is identified as the person responsible for a structure that mobilized millions of pesos in illicit operations. These companies operated in Sinaloa, Baja California, Mexico City and the State of Mexico, and their main objective was to facilitate the storage, transportation and supply of chemical precursors, essential for the manufacture of synthetic drugs.
Among the companies linked to the network are names such as Farmacia Ludim, Aceros y Refacciones del Humaya, SA de CV, and Operadora Zait SA de CV, all located in Culiacán, Sinaloa, and related to activities such as real estate, commerce and logistics.
According to Nieto, many of these companies carried out transactions with other internationally recognized companies, which allowed their illegal operations to be camouflaged for years.
Guzmán López’s main collaborators include: Ludim Zamudio Lerma and Saúl Páez LópezJoaquín’s cousin, identified by the United States Department of the Treasury as key suppliers of chemical precursors to the Sinaloa Cartel.
According to the information, these two characters are “the right hand” of Guzmán Loera’s son and serve as laboratory and logistics supervisors.
Likewise, Viridiana Páez López, sister of Saúl Páez López, has been singled out for her participation in the creation of companies that facilitated the transportation and storage of chemical precursors.
Another of the pillars in his network would be his own mother, Griselda López Pérez, the second wife of ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, with whom he had four children: Ovidio, Griselda Guadalupe, Joaquín and Édgar Guzmán López, the latter murdered on May 8, 2008.
As documented by the media, the mother of ‘Los Chapitos’ absorbed the funeral expenses of the hitmen who died on October 17, 2019 in the so-called Culiacanazo, when the Mexican government detained and released her son ‘El Ratón’.
Since 2012 the United States Department of the Treasury He identified her as a fundamental piece in the operations scheme of the cartel headed by El Chapo.
In an image published by Antonio Nieto they also appear in the characters list identified as Jeuri Limon Flowers, Raymundo Perez Uribe, Patricia Aguilar Munoz and/or Aurora Patricia Aguilar Munoz, Jorge Luis Soria Ramirez, Yadira Duran Talamantes, Alexander Lopez Hernandez, Antonio Martinez Martinez, Luis Alfonso Zamudio Lerma, Fabian Celso Mosqueda, Luis Alexander Lugo Aguilar, Norma Acosta Rosales, Norma Alicia Ramos Rosales, Wendy Viridia Valenzuela Valenzuela and Norma Elvira Pila Diaz.
As has been documented since his voluntary surrender to the US authorities, Guzmán López would have tried to separate from the “Los Chapitos” faction because it was known that he did not like life as a drug trafficker.
In a strategic move, he allegedly handed over his godfather, Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, historical leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, in exchange for legal benefits for him and his brother Ovidio Guzmán López, who is currently facing judicial proceedings in the United States.
The information also indicates that Guzmán López used his business network to accumulate large sums of money in order to negotiate his delivery and reduce the penalties against them.
The FGR, in collaboration with the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) and international organizations, continues to collect evidence against Guzmán López and his network. According to Nieto, investigations have identified that, in addition to activities related to chemical precursors, the network included operations in sectors such as food, artistic representation and low-cost medicines, which diversified its economic influence.
So far the Mexican authorities have not commented on the matter.
