'El Chapo' Guzman's $16B in Assets Belong to Mexico, Congressman Claims FoxNews.com
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Authorities escort Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman from a plane in Ronkonkoma, N.Y. on Jan. 19, 2017 (Reuters)

Members of the main opposition force in Mexico are demanding the federal government to take the necessary steps to claim the entirety of assets seized to drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, recently extradited to the United States.

On Wednesday Congressman Jorge Ramos Hernández, from the National Action Party (PAN), claimed Guzman’s fortune amounts to at least $16 billion and must be ceded to Mexico to restore the damages caused by the trafficker’s illicit activities.

“We are demanding that the federal government bring up the issue with President Trump so that [the U.S.] also covers this criminal’s extradition bill and so that the return of the total amount that corresponds to our country is guaranteed to the Mexican people,” said Ramos Hernandez.

He said that according to federal law, confiscated assets must be distributed between the countries that participated in the capture. “And it is public knowledge – he said – that in this case [Guzman] was captured thanks to actions entirely in the hands of the Mexican government and [was a result of] a total autonomous action.”

Back in June, Excelsior newspaper reported that courts in New York and Illinois were claiming a total of $21.6 billion to cover damages stemming from the Sinaloa’s cartel drug trafficking.

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