The US Department of Justice on Thursday (November 18) demanded four years in prison against Emma Coronel Aispura, the wife of Mexican drug trafficker "
El Chapo
", who pleaded guilty to participating in the trafficking of the powerful Sinaloa cartel.
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Arrested in February at the Washington airport, she had pleaded guilty in June to three counts: participation in drug trafficking, laundering of monetary instruments, and transactions with a foreign drug trafficker.
In addition to 48 months of detention, the team of prosecutors in charge of the case demanded that she be sentenced to 5 years of supervised release and the payment of 1.5 million dollars, according to a court document released Thursday.
His sentence is due on November 30 in federal court in Washington.
An "intermediary" of her husband
This 32-year-old former beauty queen, also an influencer and apprentice designer, was accused of having served as an "
intermediary
" between Joaquin Guzman alias "
El Chapo
" and his associates, and of having participated in the management of the cartel of Sinaloa - one of the most powerful in the world - once El Chapo was imprisoned in Mexico. It would have helped import into the United States some 450 tons of cocaine and 90 tons of heroin, according to the prosecution.
This woman, who has dual American and Mexican nationality, also according to prosecutors helped "
El Chapo
" to escape from a Mexican prison in 2015. The drug trafficker had then escaped through a tunnel of a kilometer and a half , emerging in the shower of his cell and equipped with rails, inflicting a scathing snub to the Mexican authorities.
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Emma Coronel Aispura married "
El Chapo
", 32 years her senior, in 2007 and had two twin daughters with him.
Joaquin Guzman was considered the most powerful drug trafficker in the world until his arrest in 2016 and his extradition to the United States in 2017. Sentenced in July 2019 to life imprisonment after a high-security trial in New York, he is serving his sentence in a high security Colorado prison.
Emma Coronel Aispura had attended her husband's trial almost daily, which lasted more than three months between November 2018 and February 2019.