Marquez's Mother Linked To Drug Traffickers

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

The investigations carried out by the United States Treasury Department against Rafael Márquez continue. Although during the legal process of the soccer player two of his accounts have been defrosted in order to access them, he is now involved in another scandal after relating his mother Rosa Alicia Álvarez Peñoles with Raúl Flores, known as El Tío, one of the leaders of Mexican drug trafficking, as reported by the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.

In addition, according to investigations carried out by the Mexican newspaper Reforma, Álvarez Peñoles and Flores together made the purchase of land in the state of Jalisco, Mexico.

"As recorded in the deed 8699 of the Public Registry of Property in Jalisco, it is exhibited that the mother of Rafa and the Uncle have acquired a land in Zapopan, Jalisco, of 7.58 hectares with a value of 5,450,000 thousand pesos [almost 289 million of dollars] on November 7, 2007”, this newspaper explains in its report.

In addition, it is mentioned that the capo sold 46.7 percent of said property to former soccer player Miguel Zepeda, who is also being investigated by the US authorities, so that later, Márquez's mother acquired the shares corresponding to this portion of land, where he is currently Eurocenter Rafael Márquez High Performance Center is built.

After this information was released, the mother of the former player of the national team of this country was missing for several hours; later, it was located in perfect physical and moral condition.

Rosa Alicia Álvarez Peñoles, who is a nurse by profession, currently works as a federal deputy for the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM).