Wealthy Mexican Playboy Arrested with Notorious Drug Lord Beltran-Leyva Kent Hernandez - Fusion
go to original October 3, 2014

When authorities in Mexico arrested drug lord Hector Beltran-Leyva on Wednesday at a popular seafood restaurant in the central city of San Miguel de Allende, they also detained another man eating with him — a well-known, young and handsome Mexican playboy.

Authorities have revealed the drug kingpin’s companion was Germán Goyeneche, the preppy son of one of the most famous and wealthy families in the state of Queretaro, in north-central Mexico.

The Attorney General’s office in Mexico identified Goyeneche as a “financial operator” for the Beltran-Leyva cartel. Goyeneche was carrying an illegal firearm when he was arrested, authorities said.

Some in Queretaro have raised questions about Goyeneche since he appeared as the visible head of an ambitious luxury real estate development in San Miguel de Allende, a business venture that some locals believed was owned by Beltran-Leyva.

Watch Goyeneche praise authorities and “foreign investors” for supporting the project:



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