This Is What The Son Of Amado Carrillo And His Mother Did After The Death Of ‘El Señor De Los Cielos’.

Mica for cartelinsider.com

Vicente Carrillo Leyva, also known as ‘El Ingeniero’, one of the most well-known sons of Amado, ‘The Lord of the Skies’, recounted that after the sudden death of the drug lord, he began to mobilize in order to recover part of the fortune that he left behind. However, in this process, he became a victim of rejection from some individuals and even from his own family, who denied the existence of certain assets.

Both his mother and Vicente focused mainly on finding money in the hidden safes that Amado had, where they only found 7 million dollars, but they still needed to search his properties for investments.

“Carrillo Leyva stated that after the death of his father in 1997, he, his mother, and his siblings began to search for money in the hidden safes that Amado had, but they only found 7 million dollars. ‘The Lord of the Skies’ was so modern that the concept of hidden stashes where Colombian and Mexican drug lords buried their money seemed old-fashioned and impractical to him,” reads in Anabel Hernandez’s book, ‘The Lords of Drug Trafficking’.

Anabel Hernández argued in her book ‘Los Señores del Narco’ that Vicente Carrillo Leyva seemed like a naive farmer when he went to consult with his father’s partners in legitimate businesses about the capital he had invested. However, being a drug trafficker, they always told him that it had been confiscated or that the authorities had it in their possession.

‘The Engineer’ even went with his uncle and namesake ‘The Viceroy’ to claim the assets that belonged to their family, to which the new leader of the Juarez Cartel argued that he had nothing.

As a debt collector, Vicente Carrillo Leyva was in charge of going with ‘El Viceroy’ and his father’s partners to demand the assets that belonged to his family. He says he only obtained a mere inch of noses, as the new leader of the Cartel told him that Amado had no assets. The ones that did exist were seized or sold to pay off debts, leaving nothing to claim. The son of ‘The Lord of the Skies’ continued knocking on doors and in 1998, he met with Juan Alberto Zepeda Méndez, the alleged frontman of his father and personal secretary of Mexican businessman Jaime Camil Garza, a friend of then-president Ernesto Zedillo. Vicente Carrillo Leyva knew that his father had bought shares in the financial group Anáhuac for $30 million and he wanted the money returned. The financial company had been operating for more than 3 years.

Carrillo Leyva was in several places where his father had investments and it was there that he approached the frontman of the boss, Zepeda Méndez. When he was questioned about the fortune that his father had left, he said it was impossible to recover, taking advantage of the inexperience of the then 21-year-old.

When Carrillo Leyva asked Zepeda Méndez, he avoided his commitments, indicating that the National Banking Commission intervened, so it would be impossible to recover the capital. Fortunately, he was just a junior, as if he had the temperament of his father, Zepeda Méndez wouldn’t have woken up.

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