Judge suspended a new arrest warrant against Isidro “N” allegedly linked to the CJNG

On the afternoon of this Wednesday, March 3, the news about the suspension of a new arrest warrant against Isidro “N”, a Jalisco magistrate who has been singled out, since 2019, for allegedly maintaining ties with the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG).

It was the judge Laura Margarita Sepúlveda Castro, head of the Second District Court of Amparo in Criminal Matters with residence in Tepic, who granted this action, which does not imply the freedom of the accused, according to the media The Occidental.

It should be remembered that Isidro “N” has been imprisoned in a Nayarit jail since last November 28, 2019, after revealing his alleged relationship with the CJNG. The investigation against him was due to the presumed illicit origin of 12 million 20,474 pesos that were deposited into a bank account in 2011.

On May 17, 2017, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), of the United States Department of the Treasury, signed the magistrate for his illegal actions in Mexico, in accordance with the Law on the Designation of Foreign Narcotics Chiefs (Ley Kingpin).

According to the report issued that day, Isidro “N” allegedly participated with the CJNG and the Los Cuinis Drug Trafficking Organization allied drug trafficking cells that were included in the Kingpin Act in 2015. The then magistrate received bribes from these groups in exchange for providing favorable court rulings to their senior members.

That same document included the former governor of Nayarit, Roberto Sandoval Castañeda, who “has been involved in a variety of corruption activities, such as the misappropriation of state assets and the receipt of bribes from Mexican drug trafficking organizations, including the CJNG. ”Reads the OFAC website.

Isidro “N” was arrested on November 22, 2019 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, by agents of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), to later be transferred to Mexico City and start the legal process.

By the next day, a federal judge based in Almoloya de Juárez, State of Mexico, issued justified preventive detention to Isidro “N”, former magistrate allegedly linked to the CJNG, for the crime of illicit enrichment, and will remain in the maximum security prison of The Altiplano.

Arturo Zaldivar, Minister President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), highlighted the arrest of the magistrate and expressed his appreciation for the work of the FGR and the Secretariat for Citizen Security.

Later, on November 28 of that year, he was formally charged under the United States Department of the Treasury Designation of Foreign Narcotics Capos Act for their alleged money laundering links with the head of the CJNG, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “The Mencho”. Almost simultaneously, Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) froze its bank accounts after they noticed that there was a deposit of 70 million pesos, an amount that did not coincide with the income it received from the Mexican government.

Between 2010 and 2016, Isidro “N” acquired assets for more than 18 million. During this time, ordered the release of Juan Francisco Aguilar Santana (“Juan Pistolas”), one of the men in Oseguera’s closet.

According to the investigation, the magistrate was in charge of the Sixth Unitary Court of the Third Circuit based in Jalisco, and attended at least 10 cases of detainees linked to the CJNG.