From Vicente Fox to Former AMLO Officials: The Complex Corrupt Network of “King” Zambada in CDMX

Jesus Reynaldo Zambada GarciaMayo’s brother better known as “El Rey”, was the boss of Mexico City and operated with impunity for more than ten years, although some versions say they could have been as many as twenty.

At that time, “El Rey” was the lord and master of the Mexican capital. However, the first word of it operating in Mexico City was heard on November 30, 2007, when a DEA agent delivered to Mazatlán, Sinaloa, information that pointed to the “king” as an important operator of the Sinaloa Cartel.

The information indicated that Zambada García was one of the most important distributors of cocaine and methamphetamine in the whole country, since he controlled the place of the Mexican capital, in particular the international airport of Mexico City.

A card from the Secretary of Public Security dated January 2008 reports that during a search carried out in Coyoacán, on Cerro de los Dos Conejos street, a member of the security group of Arturo Beltrán Leyvas, alias “El Barbas”, that they called it “El 22” or “El Doble”, said that the drug dealer from Mexico City was “a brother of the May”.

Four months later, after the failure of the “El Barbas” arrest operation on the Cuernavaca-Acapulco highway, a Federal Police command, Edgar Eusebio Millan, was murdered in the living room of his home. The attacker had the keys to his apartment in his possession and was waiting for him in the living room.

Over time, authorities discovered that the executed command had been betrayed by a federal police colleague named José Antonio Martín Montes Garfias, who worked for the Beltrán Leyva family and had been assigned to teach the commander who was leading the operation a lesson.

They found a notebook in Montes Garfias, according to the report prepared at the time, which contained data disclosed by Arturo Beltrán and on one of the pages it was read that “Mr. Rey “was in charge of receiving shipments at the airport”and he was the brother of drug dealer El Mayo”.

Zambada, according to his own testimony in the lawsuit against Genaro García Luna, owned an entire hangar at the AICM; all this thanks to the support of elements of the Attorney General of the Republic (RPG), there IFA of García Luna, the National Customs Agency, as well as the Federal Roads and Bridges (hood) and the Federal Police (PF).

He said the AICM’s porter men, federal police and customs officers worked with him to smuggle about 100 tons of cocaine into the AICM each month destined for the United States, worth about $3 billion. “Every day of (Vicente Fox’s) six-year term has grown stronger (The Sinaloa Cartel)“, said “The King”.

On Monday, February 13, “El Rey” claimed to have paid at least $5 million in 2006 to former Public Security Secretary Genaro García Luna, when he headed the Federal Investigation Agency (AEI). “El Rey” said he made two payments, one of $3 million and a second of $2 million to García Luna at the Los Campos Elíseos restaurant.

In addition to the bribes paid to García Luna, he also confessed to giving in 2013 around $7 million to a security official in the capital.

He also accused Gabriel Regino of allegedly receiving bribes of $3 million 13 years ago, when he served as Undersecretary for Public Security in the former Federal District, when Lopez Obrador He was head of the government of the capital (2000-2005).

Zambada operated with impunity within the AICM, under the protection of high-ranking police, until Siedo agents arrested him in Lindavista on October 20, 2008.

That day, he was accompanied by three active police officers as escorts. one was Guillaume Baez, federal police attached to the AICM. Others: Carlos Gerardo CastilloAFI officer, and Francois Montano, Tlalnepantla Ministerial Conference. He was also accompanied by two former federal judicial officers, I loved Nava and Marco Antonio Valadez.