How much money the sonie of Osiel Cárdenas Guillén earned at the head of an extortion network to transmigrant agencies
After two years of litigation, Carlos Fabián Martínezaka ‘The quate‘, he declared himself guilty of the crimes of extortion and money laundering committed as part of a criminal network that sought to monopolize the services of transmigrant agencies on the border of Mexico and the United States.
These companies are dedicated, primarily, to facilitate the procedures that transmigrants must make before the customs authorities for the Transport of goods and vehiclesin this case, from the United States to Central America, through Mexico. In exchange for these services, each agency charges a rate according to the number and type of goods that will cross the border.
However, in 2011, four Cameron County companies, in Texas, agreed that they would charge the same amount of money in exchange for their services, which would eliminate competition between them. This conglomerate of entities, eventually, created a Monopoly on these servicesaccording to judicial files cited by Central Valley.
Documents of the Court of the Southern Texas District present that those in charge of this network were Carlos Fabián Martínez (sonie of Osiel Cárdenas Guillénformer leader of the Gulf Cartel), Marco Antonio Medina, Rigoberto Brown, Pedro Antonio Calvillo Hernández, Roberto García Villarreal (aka ‘Betin), Miguel Hipólito Caballero AUPAR, Sandra Guerra Medina and Mireya Miranda.
For several years, the defendants were in charge of distributing the service market to transmigrants in the port of entry of The Indians, in Texas. In a coordinated manner they modified prices in the region, while monitoring and punished those who did not participate in their scheme.
The criminal network “deterred, by means that included threats and acts of violenceto the new participants and the intruders who supposed a threat to the stability, operation or continued existence of the price setting and market assignment conspiracy ”, can be read in the accusation.
The investigatives of the US government allowed to know that in 2013, this criminal association charged the agencies of others a rate of $ 40 per vehicle in exchange for a “safe step” for Mexico. Between 2017 and 2018, the floor collection amounted to $ 65 per car and in 2019 it rose again to the 80 dollars per unit.
According to reports Central Valleythe guilt agreement reached by the lawyers and prosecutors in charge of the case establishes that ‘the cuate’ obtained profits from At least nine and a half million dollars (195 million 429 thousand 250 pesos at the current exchange rate) during your participation in the conspiracy.
Although the agreement with prosecutors contemplates a reduced sentence of 11 years for criminal charges, the judicial authority scheduled a audience for next Mayin which the final conviction of the ‘Cuate’ will be announced.
