Damaso Lopez Nunez, considered one of the possible successors of Joaquin Guzman Loera in the Sinaloa Cartel, went from being a public servant with an income of nine thousand 433 pesos a month, a man of power and wealth in the structure of organized crime.
His criminal career dates back at least 14 years ago when he was part of a network of prison officials who helped in the escape of "El Chapo" the Puente Grande prison in Jalisco.
Records of the General Administration of the Ministry of the Interior (Interior Ministry) and Coordination of Federal Centers, delivered through Transparency Act, provide insight into his career as a public servant before entering the structure of the Sinaloa Cartel .
According to the curriculum drawn up and signed by Lopez himself Nunez -fechado the January 19, 1998 in Culiacan, Sinaloa, in 1991 he worked in the Attorney General of the State (PGJE) of Sinaloa as prosecutor (MP ) assistant commissioner in the first agency. As an agent of MP led for seven months a state safety program called "patrols monitoring and observation points and support" where participating municipal transit and judicial police of the state, whose purpose was to detect fugitives from justice, either by have warrant or carry firearms.
"These devices had the opportunity first to lead a path or rondin of different that formed throughout the state and, to be exact, 15 days after that initiated these operations, I was appointed coordinator of such rondines surveillance" he wrote in his resume.
After being Assistant Public Ministry, he served as head agent of MP under state jurisdiction in the PGJE, commissioned by the Regional Deputy Justice Center Zone. His career in public service continued as operational supervisor of the State Judicial Police, the Judicial Police commissioner destacamentada in Villa Juarez, Sinaloa; Department Assistant Chief Judicial Proceedings of the State Police and then head of the state Department of Motor Vehicles Zone Center, based in Culiacan.
He continued to prosper, and he writes: "I Causé high as head of the Operations Department and Logistics Directorate of the Judicial Police of the State; I was commissioned in the Northern Zone and commissioned with the same appointment in the South Zone. "
When he submitted his resume to the Personnel Division of the Directorate General of Prevention and Social Rehabilitation (DGPRS), which filed your income to the Federal Center for Psychosocial Rehabilitation of Morelos, he served as head of group of inspectors Inspection Directorate and Regulations . There he began his way to the prison in Puente Grande, where would unite a friendship with "El Chapo".
Today "The Bachelor" is considered the successor of Joaquin Guzman in the structure of the Sinaloa Cartel. At 48 years old, the Treasury Department in the United States ranks it as one of the top lieutenants of this criminal organization. Currently, Mexico has no effect any arrest warrant against him , but in the neighboring country faces a charge of "laundering" of money and distribution of cocaine, according to informed through a newsletter the Office of US Attorney for Eastern district of Virginia in 2012.
Including his own "Chapo" said Damaso was his successor after his capture on February 22, Carlos Loret de Mola said in his column in June last year. The weekly Zeta Lopez Nunez said the territory is disputed in Baja California Sur with "El Mayo Zambada". Unlike his son, nicknamed "El Mini Lic" who assumed his ostentatious life on social networks and has several corridos to his name, Lopez Nunez is discreet. According sinaloenses media have documented, it has been seen in the receivership of El Dorado, which has properties and where his father was trustee of the same name in 2007.
Recommendation letters
To join the public service, "The Bachelor" had good recommendations. The two letters accompanying its application for a federal criminal were issued by government officials in Sinaloa Renato Vega Alvarado mandate. The trades were made on letterhead with the logo of the government of that entity, and issued the Inspection Directorate and Regulations, which depended on the General Secretariat of Government, then in charge of Cuauhtemoc Francisco Frias Castro.
In the first letter of February 25, 1998, the official recommended Lopez Nunez, and whose name says it testa: "I recommend it very widely as a person who has seriousness, responsibility and honesty, moral standing and a high spirit of collaboration and professional development. "
In the second letter, the official who worked at the General Secretariat of Government of Sinaloa, identified as "professor , " said Lopez Nunez meet for six years, who at that time had shown improvement concerns ago. "It has always shown good behavior, seriousness and responsibility in the roles it has played as a public servant, both in the State Judicial Police and the Directorate of Inspection and Regulations" he wrote.
His start in criminal
On March 16, 1998, Damaso began working as deputy director of Homeland Security at the Federal Center for Psychosocial Rehabilitation in Morelos.
In the identification card that I had to fill for admission, it was reported intern law degree; he was married and had three children under 13 years. In a document DGPRS, dated March 12, 1998, it detailed his deputy would charge a monthly salary of nine thousand 433.20 pesos.
The documents handed to enter the prison of Morelos were his birth certificate, voter registration card, proof of address, Causing Federal Register, proof of studies and CURP, among others. To prove his studies gave proof of the University of the West, dated 30 January 1997. The document notes that subjects attended the first quarter of the race twelfth of law, hence its nickname, "The Bachelor".
Arrival to Puente Grande
On March 1, 1999, on instructions from a fellow countryman, Damaso Lopez Nunez reached the Federal Social Rehabilitation Center No. 2, Puente Grande, Jalisco, which form part of the network of officials who helped escape Joaquin Guzman Loera the January 19, 2001.
In a letter addressed to José Luis Martínez García, deputy director of Administration Psychosocial Centre of Morelos, where he worked Lopez Nunez, he was informed that the square of the Division of Homeland Security that center would be commissioned in the Puente Grande prison, Jalisco, until further notice.
This "on the occasion of the recent designations determined by Mr. Marco Antonio Zazueta Felix, Managing Director of Prevention and Social Rehabilitation, in federal centers , " reads the document of February 26, 1999.
That was how, almost a year after serving as deputy director of Homeland Security at the prison in Morelos, "The Graduate" was transferred to Puente Grande. Since he arrived, the rules of discipline, safety and security were lost.
According to testimonies gathered in the criminal case 16/2001-V, Lopez Nunez was one of the officials who started with the sale of privileges and various acts of corruption that relaxed the discipline of criminal and finally favored the escape of Guzman Loera.
In complicity with him, "El Chapo Guzman", Luis Hector "El Guero" Palma and Arturo Martinez Herrera "Texas" introduced not allowed items in their rooms, such as microwave ovens, electric grills, cellular and dishes.
Also entered alcohol, viagra, drugs and prostitutes, who even stayed with them in cells for three days, while celebrating birthday parties.
It also gave money to all staff security and custody of the criminal who played work in modules 2, 3 and 4.
In the collected testimonies mentioned that before Lopez Nunez resigned the post of deputy director of Security and Custody, elements of the Center for Investigation and National Security (Cisen) made a review of vehicles entering the parking lot of the staff and found him dollars , drugs and alcohol, so I had to resign.
Other versions of people who worked in the prison, collected in the same file indicate that one morning, staff of the Attorney General's Office (PGR) revised before entering the prison and seized a suitcase containing prohibited items, such as drug and dollars, "but he did nothing, but resigned and not inscribed".
Another of the guards who worked in the prison said in his statement that with the arrival of Major Lopez, he began to favor Joaquin Guzman Loera. In addition, behaviors "were soft and there was a lot of corruption".
Although the Public Prosecutor's Office issued an arrest warrant against Lopez Nunez on charges of bribery and evasion prisoner, the latter was denied because the ministerial authorities failed to submit evidence demonstrating that actively participated in the escape.
For the crime of bribery he was issued an arrest warrant, but prescribed and illicit April 20, 2010 the criminal case in which he was involved was dismissed and criminal action was canceled.
the resignation
On September 30, 2000, by a written Damaso, then deputy director of Security and Custody, presented his resignation with irrevocable director of Cefereso 2 of Puente Grande, Leonardo Beltran Santana.
"I certify that to date no I owed wages, vacation and bonuses, and not reserve any right to execute legal action against the institution , " wrote Lopez Nunez.
In the statements made by several guards who are in the record of the case, they said that after his resignation, Damaso appeared on several occasions in the criminal to visit the head of the Sinaloa Cartel, there remained registry entry.
Days before the escape of Sinaloa capo, Lopez Nunez came to the cell of "El Chapo", with whom he remained for more than an hour. It is not known what they talked about, but since nobody saw him again in the prison.
In Mexico, in 2009, he faced a second criminal charge, but in November 2012 he was granted an injunction and subsequently left without effect the arrest warrant that had turned into the record 88/2009.
On March 8, 2012, the Office of the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia reported an indictment against him for "laundering" money and cocaine distribution that follows from the November 23, 2011 and where describe as "a narcotics kingpin and lieutenant of the Sinaloa Cartel."
The power that has acquired "The Bachelor" in this criminal organization was evident on September 2013, when he announced that the United States Department of the Treasury included it on its blacklist.
In the information released by the Office of Foreign Assets Control, it is noted that since Damaso Lopez helped Guzman Loera in his flight, has become one of the top lieutenants of the Sinaloa Cartel, responsible for shipping tons of drugs from Mexico to the United States.
To have included in this list, US citizens are prohibited from conducting financial or commercial transactions with these two individuals, and any assets they may have under US jurisdiction are also frozen.
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