The Attorney General of the Republic, Alejandro Gertz Manero, said that Mexico is ready to prosecute boxer Julio César Chávez Jr. who was arrested last week in the United States and is waiting to be deported.
“We will be pending, all our staff is ready,” said the official during the presidential press conference.
The fighter, son of the legendary Julio César Chávez, faces a legal process in the United States, where he was arrested last week to enter illegally and is indicated of having links with the Sinaloa poster.
Gertz Manero said that the Mexican government is waiting for the audience in the United States against Chávez to be carried out so that they can deport it immediately, although on Monday, when such a hearing would be carried out, the boxer did not appear.
“It seems that yesterday there was a certain confusion because there were two audiences: one for previous crimes that were under investigation and the other that is deportation. The one that will give us more accurate information is the (audience) of deportation (…) it turned out that Monday neither one nor the other was done,” he said.
The FGR reported that Chávez’s defense presented amparos, but said they do not proceed.
“This person’s lawyer has been presenting a series of amparos that are inadmissible and we will prosecute it at the time,” said Gertz.
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Mexican authorities criticize US for not stopping Chávez Jr.
He also explained that since 2023 the arrest warrants were obtained against a criminal group headed by Ovid Guzmán and another series of criminals, among which he showed that Chavez Jr.
“The priority was obviously the bosses of that poster. We managed to stop them, we were sent to the United States in extradition,” he said.
In that sense, he held the US authorities responsible for not stopping the boxer before.
“All the information to be able to stop it and the whole obligation was theirs because it was there, because they had denounced it, because they had presented the tests and because they knew what was happening,” he said.
Chávez Jr., 39, was arrested last Thursday in the United States and will be deported to Mexico. The arrest took place after last Saturday the pugilist lost in a fight in Anaheim (EU) against Jake Paul.
The US government accuses him of having links with the Sinaloa cartel, in addition to not having documents to be legally in the country.
Although in December 2024 it was declared “a serious threat to public security” of the country, in the end the US authorities determined that their case was not a priority and was not arrested at that time.
With EFE information
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