Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, ‘the friend killer’ and former leader of the Gulf Cartel and founder of Los Zetas, will be released this Friday, August 30thaccording to records from the United States Federal Bureau of Prisons.
According to a survey conducted by The FinancierCárdenas Guillén, who appears with the Registration number 62604-079is internal in the Terre Haute Federal Prisonin the state of Indiana.
The circumstances surrounding the release of Cárdenas Guillen, 57, have not been detailed, so it is not known whether his release from prison is conditional.
What did Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, former leader of the Gulf Cartel, do?
Osiel Cardenas is Originally from Matamoros, Tamaulipas and had been sentenced to 25 years in prison for various crimes related to drug trafficking activities carried out in both Mexico and the United States.
Criminal records indicate that the drug trafficker He was arrested on March 14, 2003 and extradited to the United States on January 17, 2007. That is, his freedom would be granted 21 years after elements of the Mexican Army captured him.
Cárdenas Guillén was the leader of the Gulf Cartel and creator of Los Zetas. He was classified by the United States government as one of the most bloodthirsty criminals in history. He was accused of more than two thousand homicides and charged him with 17 different charges, in addition to offering two million dollars for his capture.
Once they had him in a prison in that country, in February 2010, Osiel Cárdenas reached an agreement that allowed him to avoid life imprisonment and be locked up in a maximum security prison. This was in exchange for providing information on the structure of the cartels in Mexico.
As a financial penalty, a US court imposed a fine of 100 thousand dollars and the confiscation of another 50 million. That amount is almost equivalent to what the drug lord would have earned in just three months from drug trafficking to the United States, the Department of Justice itself acknowledged.
Why is Osiel Cárdenas nicknamed the ‘friend killer’?
“Accounting ledgers for drugs seized in Atlanta in June 2001 indicated that The Gulf Cartel has generated more than $41 million in profits in a three-month period“the Justice Department said in a statement on February 24, 2010, when it announced Cárdenas Guillén’s sentence.
The former leader of the Gulf Cartel and founder of Los Zetas (a paramilitary group made up of ex-military personnel, which he used as an armed wing), He was nicknamed ‘the friend killer’ for murdering his mentor, Salvador Gómez.
The details of the agreement reached by Cárdenas Guillén with the United States justice system may never be revealed, since the government of that country reserved the content of the pact in perpetuity with the boss.
