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A notorious drug cartel has enlisted a pirate who was able to infiltrate the telephone data and surveillance cameras of Mexico City to help follow and kill the informants of the FBI, revealed the US Ministry of Justice.
The 2018 operation was disclosed Thursday in a 47 -page audit by the Inspector General of the Ministry of Justice, describing the “efforts of the FBI to mitigate the effects of omnipresent technical monitoring”.
The partially expurd report quotes an implying case Guzman’s Guzman – The founder of the infamous Sinaloa cartel. “El Chapo” is now serving a life imprisonment in a maximum security prison in the United States on several conspiracy accounts for the smuggling of large quantities of cocaine and other drugs in the United States for more than a quarter of a century.
According to the newly published audit, an unnamed pirate was recruited by the cartel in 2018. The pirate “observed people entering and leaving the United States Embassy in Mexico City and identified interesting persons ” for the cartel, including an assistant FBI legal attaché,” the report.
The hacker was able to use the attacker’s telephone number to determine incoming and outgoing calls as well as the geolocation data of the FBI manager, according to the audit.
The report indicates that the pirate also used the Mexico Cameras system to follow the FBI’s attaché throughout the city and identify the people they encountered. “The cartel used this information to intimidate and, in some cases, kill potential sources or cooperate witnesses,” said the audit.
The report noted that modern technology has made it difficult to protect sensitive operations and sources.
“The progress of data exploration and analysis, facial recognition and the exploitation of computer networks have facilitated opponents of the national state, terrorist organizations and criminal networks to identify FBI staff and operations,” said audit.
The report has urged the FBI to carry out an assessment of business threats to determine where the agency is the most vulnerable.
The Sinaloa cartel, which was appointed a terrorist organization Earlier this year by the Trump administration, has long been one of the most powerful and ruthless crime unions. The cartel is one of the largest producers and traffickers in fentanyl and other drugs in the United States and has been known “to murder, kidnap and intimidate civilians, government officials and journalists,” said US State Department.
The revelation on the hacker of the Sinaloa cartel comes only a few weeks after the United States proposed a 10 million dollars award For the capture of two of the sons of El Chapo – Archivaldo Ivan Guzman Salazar and Jesus Alfredo Guzman Salazar. His other two sons – Joaquin Guzman Lopez And Ovidio Guzman Lopez – are currently in police custody.
The sons of El Chapo lead a faction of the Sinaloa cartel known as “chapitos” or “Little Chapos”. The chapitos and their cartel associates used corks, electrocution and hot peppers for torture their rivals While some of their victims were “nourished or died in tigers”, according to an American indictment in 2023.
