The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has no records indicating that Rubén Rocha Moya was in the country on the dates close to the kidnapping of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada by Joaquín Guzmán López, which contradicts the statements of the governor of Sinaloa.
CBP sources confirmed to journalist Luis Chaparro that “that person (Rocha Moya) did not enter the country on that date or on nearby dates. I can assure you of that. All the people who enter the country are registered in our system, and there is no record of him.”
It is important to remember that, after the arrest of “El Mayo” in the United States on July 25, after being handed over by Guzmán López, the founder and leader of the Sinaloa Cartel issued a letter in which he claimed to have been kidnapped while attending a meeting in which he had been led to believe that he would meet with Rocha Moya and Héctor Melesio Cuén, former rector of the UAS.
Before President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the then virtual president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, at an event in Culiacán on August 10, the governor responded to Zambada’s statements: “If they said that I was going to be there, then they lied, and if (“El Mayo”) believed them, then he fell into the trap. No, he didn’t have to. I already said that those problems that are the government’s are resolved in the institutions (…) There is nothing that can link me to those matters.”
Rocha Moya also assured that the day Zambada was kidnapped he was on a vacation trip that he made in a private plane that the businessman Jesús Vizcarra lent to his son. He reiterated that he did not leave because he was aware of the meeting. “It was a coincidence,” said Rocha Moya.
He affirmed that he returned from this trip one day after Zambada was kidnapped.
In response to the statements of the state leader, the businessman Vizcarra, founder of SuKarne and Salud Digna, explained that the plane was requested by Rubén Rocha Ruiz, the governor’s son, and granted due to a long-standing friendship. The relationship between Vizcarra and the Rocha family dates back 28 years, when Rubén Rocha Moya was rector of the Autonomous University of Sinaloa and Vizcarra presided over the Board of Trustees of the Civil Hospital of Culiacán.
Source: latinus.us
