Magistrate’s Links to Drug Trafficking Investigated

The General Unit of Investigation of Administrative Responsibilities of the Council of the Federal Judiciary (CJF) opened an investigation against Magistrate Isidro Avelar Gutiérrez for allegedly issuing rulings in favor of members of the Jalisco Cartel New Generation (CJNG) and Los Zetas.The inquiries began after the magistrate ordered the release of Juan Francisco Aguilar Santana “Juan Pistolas” and Rubén Oseguera González “El Menchito”, son of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes “El Mencho”, leader of the CJNG. Magistrate Isidro Avelar Gutiérrez met with the daughters of “El Mencho”, Jalisco’s criminal leader, according to information obtained from the Judiciary by reforma.Read more: “Trump did leave the wall: the 4T”, Chumel Torres for migrant conflictAvelar Gutiérrez has been in the Federal Prison of El Rincón, Nayarit, where he faces charges of money laundering. In addition, the CJF investigates the time he served as a magistrate in the state of Jalisco.  “Acts committed by Isidro Avelar Gutiérrez in his capacity as Circuit Magistrate are being investigated, in relation to his possible participation in acts of corruption, when issuing favorable resolutions to the members of the CJNG and a former leader of the criminal group called Los Zetas,” says the file of an amparo with which he intended to obtain his provisional release. The Attorney General’s Office is also targeting the magistrate. While the Morena caucus in the Senate denounced him for the alleged purchase of real estate for 18.7 million pesos between 2010 and 2016.After a month he was revealed as head of the Sixth Unitary Court of Zapopan and appointed as head of a court of Chilpancingo, a measure that the still Magistrate challenged before the Supreme Court of Justice, In an interview he gave in May of the same year, after the Financial Intelligence Unit (UIF) froze bank accounts that allegedly contained about 50 million pesos, Avelar said that the figure was stratospheric and denied having such assets. Given the alleged links with drug cartels, the federal justice considers that it is risky to allow Avelar Gutiérrez to carry out his process in freedom. Read more: Javier Sicilia compared AMLO to Hitler, “he has built power with the masses” “It is a risk for officials and people who intervene in the course of the process, either in their physical integrity or to compel them to carry out improper behaviors that hinder the procedure,” the ruling says.



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