The “Cuini”, violent right arm of the “Mencho”, denounced that he had been tortured in the Altiplano prison

Abigael Gonzalez Valencia, alias the “Kitchens” – Chief leader of the Los Cuinis criminal group, financial arm of the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel – started 2021 off right.

The man, also identified as the right arm of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, received one last week corrective sanction that is considering the prohibition of activities within the Altiplano prison – Where he is currently imprisoned – such as play therapy, drawing, literature, library, physical education, and attending patios and dining rooms to eat. The corrective fine has a term of 15 days.

Faced with the actions, the drug trafficker issued an injunction, alleging segregation and psychological torture. However, Judge Juan Miguel Ortiz Marmolejo, judge in Amparo’s Ninth District and Toluca Federal Trials, dismissed the amparo. The reasons why the authority imposed the sentence on him is unknown.

“Cuini” is a former leader of the criminal group Los Cuinis, a clan of at least 18 brothers who reportedly run the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) money laundering networks. Together with his brother-in-law Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, aka el “Mencho”, is said to have coordinated international drug trafficking operations in America, Europe and Asia. He was also responsible for managing the financial operations of the CJNG and Los Cuinis.

He worked for the Millennium Cartel in the 1990s and eventually was part of the original group that formed the CJNG and Los Cuinis in the 2010s. He was arrested in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco on February 28, 2015.

Abigael González Valencia was arrested in April 2015 in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco And although the United States government has requested his extradition, its legal defense has kept him in Mexico.

He was the successor to the cocaine transfer that his father started in the 1970s Armando Valencia de “Maradona”, who formed the so-called Millennium Cartel.

In January 2020, the “Cuini” was able to stop his extradition to the United States, after Judge Rosa María Cervantes Mejía approved her motion. The court made this decision because the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Relations (SRE) did not mention the allegations facing the “Cuini” in Mexico in the extradition request, and was told that if they would request a retrial, they would pay the costs. in Mexico.

The Prosecution had filed for extradition through the SRE in response to a petition from the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The “Cuini” was wanted in the American Union because of his participation in the organized crime, money laundering and international drug trafficking.

The “Cuini” has been in various prisons in Mexico since his arrest. In 2018 he was transferred to the Federal Center for Social Readjustment No. 14 (“CPS Durango”), a maximum security prison in Gómez Palacio, Durango. However, he complained about the transfer, stating that the prison did not provide him with proper health conditions and kept him separate from the rest of the prison population. He asked a court to return him to the Altiplano because he said he feared for his life.

In February 2019, the “Cuini” was transferred to the Northern Preventive Prison. His transfer sparked tension after several prison guards complained about receiving death threats and seeing vehicles carrying armed men outside the prison. The guards asked them to change the area of ​​the prison where they worked and their working hours.

Fearing a prison break, authorities moved Cuini back to the Altiplano on July 27. A week earlier A video circulated on social media that the CJNG planned to help El Mencho’s partner escape from prison.

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