El Chapo Trial: Former Mexican President Pena Nieto Took $100 Million Bribe, Witness Says [View all]
NEW YORK — Former Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto took a $100 million bribe from international drug traffickers, according to a witness at the trial of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, the infamous crime lord known as El Chapo.
The stunning testimony was delivered Tuesday in a New York courtroom by Alex Cifuentes Villa, a Colombian drug lord who worked closely with Guzmán from 2007 to 2013, when they were hiding from the authorities at one of the kingpin’s remote ranches in the Sierra Madre mountains.
“Mr. Guzmán paid a bribe of $100 million to President Peña Nieto?” Jeffrey Lichtman, one of Guzmán’s lawyers, asked Cifuentes during cross-examination.
“Yes,” responded Cifuentes.
The bribe was delivered to Peña Nieto through an intermediary, according to Cifuentes.
Read more: https://www.mrt.com/news/article/El-Chapo-Former-Mexican-President-trial-bribes-13536154.php
(Midland Reporter-Telegram)
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