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A witness heard this Tuesday at the trial against the drug trafficker known as "El Chapo" claimed that his boss paid a $ 100 million bribe (87.6 million euros) to former Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto.
Alex Cifuente, former employee of Joaqun "El Chapo" Guzman, referred to the payment when he was questioned by one of the traffickers' lawyers in a Brooklyn court in New York. Asked if he would have told the US authorities in 2016 that Guzman had bribed the president, Cifuente confirmed, referring to Reuters: "Yes, that's right".
It is the first time since the beginning of the trial in New York, in the United States of America, in November, that a witness directly involves Andres's predecessor Manuel Lopez Obrador.
This Colombian drug dealer, who has worked closely with Guzman since 2007 until his detention in November 2013, now works with the US courts.
Cifuentes then publicly confirmed a testimony collected in January 2016 by the American investigators, who then spoke about the bribe.
According to Lichtman, at the time the Colombian stated that Pena Nieto had initially requested 250 million dollars, but that "El Chapo" had managed to reduce the amount to 100 million.
The process initially had to last for four months, but must end before that time.
US authorities have stated that El Chapo, which faces life imprisonment, shipped more than 154 tons of cocaine to the United States between 1989 and 2014, for an estimated value of 14 billion dollars (about 12 billion dollars of Euro).
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