Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Bribed Otto Pérez? Drug Lord Allegedly Paid Former Guatemalan President $1
Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán Bribed Otto Pérez? Drug Lord Allegedly Paid Former Guatemalan President $1.5 Million
By Cedar Attanasio | Sep 08 2015, 07:29PM EDT
Guatemala’s former president is behind bars on corruption allegations, while Mexico’s most notorious cartel leader is on the loose. Their stories collided in a Guatemalan courtroom on Tuesday as former president Otto Pérez Molina defended himself against fraud, bribery and other charges. To illustrate his incorruptibility, the former general retold a story about coming head-head with Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán-Loera when the alleged Sinaloa Cartel was arrested in Guatemala in 1993.
"I want to mention that in the 1990s I directed an operation that led to the capture of the most wanted narcotrafficker in the work, known as Chapo Guzmán,” said Pérez.
Guatemalan officials handed El Chapo over to Mexican police after Pérez’s team arrested the narcotrafficker, but he soon escaped. Rearrested in February of 2014, the cartel leader escaped again in July of 2015. His whereabouts are unknown.
“You can imagine what he did when we caught him (in 1993): the first thing he did was negotiate,” said Pérez, who said that he rejected a $1.5 million dollar bribe that Guzmán allegedly offered for his freedom.
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