El Chapo jury hears secretly taped cocaine deal
By Emily Saul December 13, 2018 | 4:50pm


A Brooklyn courtroom Thursday heard notorious Mexican kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in action, listening in on a phone call where he can be heard coordinating a cocaine deal with a member of a Colombian guerrilla group.

“Tomorrow I will send a technician over there to see it,” Chapo insists on the call, which was secretly taped in May 2010.

The drug lord repeatedly insists the cocaine must be inspected before he sends a $50,000 advance for the six ton deal, with government witness Jorge Milton Cifuentes, who trafficked cocaine for Chapo, explaining they’d received inferior drugs from the guerrillas before.

Jurors listened intently to the damning exchange, in which the unidentified member of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People’s Army, or FARC, tries to sell the cocaine to Chapo for $2,100 per kilo of cocaine.

Chapo skillfully whittles him down to $2,000 per kilo for the first two tons, and then gets him to agree to send the other four tons on credit.

While it wasn’t clear who had recorded the call, Cifuentes testified earlier that Chapo had been having trouble with his “cryptography” system — which was meant to block eavesdropping — because the cartel IT guy forgot to file some paperwork.

The deal never went through, Cifuentes testified, though he didn’t know why.

Chapo faces life behind bars if convicted of various drug trafficking and conspiracy charges.

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