$5 million bounty for the capture of El Chapo's brother
The United States announced Friday that it has offered a reward of five million dollars to anyone who provides it with information leading to the arrest of Aureliano Gusman Loera, the brother of the famous Mexican drug dealer "El Chapo", and three other wanted persons accused of drug trafficking.
The US State Department said that Gusman Loera is accused before the US judiciary, along with the brothers Roberto Salguero Nevarez, Jose Salguero Nevarez and Heriberto Salguero Nevarez, of international drug trafficking.
The US judiciary had sentenced his brother Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the former leader of the "Sinaloa" cartel, to life imprisonment.
The state of Sinaloa (northwest Mexico) has long been a hub for drug smuggling into the United States.
The four wanted men are being prosecuted under one of the US Department of Justice's indictments for smuggling fentanyl, a drug responsible in the United States annually for thousands of overdose deaths.
The State Department indicated that the value of the reward amounts to five million dollars for each of the four wanted men.
El Chapo, 64, was sentenced in the United States in July 2019 to life imprisonment.
This drug baron, who was considered the most powerful in his field in the world until the United States received him from Mexico in 2017, is currently serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison in the US state of Colorado.
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