MEXICO CITY — As an expert, Julio Cesar Chavez fought 115 occasions within the ring. Now, the previous world champion stated he was able to combat outdoors of it to defend his same-name son, who was arrested by U.S. immigration brokers at his Los Angeles dwelling for overstaying his visa and mendacity on a inexperienced card utility.
The 39-year-old Chavez Jr. additionally has an energetic warrant for his arrest in Mexico for alleged arms and drug trafficking and urged ties to the Sinaloa Cartel.
“It’s complicated; there’s a lot of talk, but we’re calm because we know my son’s innocence,” the elder Chavez advised the El Heraldo newspaper. “My son will be anything you want, anything, but he is not a criminal and less everything he’s being accused of.”
Alejandro Gertz Manero, Mexico’s Legal professional Normal, stated on Sunday that the investigation towards Chavez Jr. began in 2019 after a criticism filed by U.S. authorities towards the Sinaloa Cartel for organized crime, human trafficking, arms trafficking and drug trafficking.
“He knows a lot of people, we live in, it would be impossible not to know all of the people that are doing illicit stuff, but that does not mean nothing,” Chavez stated. “In my time, I met everybody, and they did not come after me.”
Chavez Sr. was thought-about the most effective Mexican boxers of all time: a world champion in three divisions. Within the Eighties and ’90s, he was an enormous movie star who related to drug sellers. He claimed prior to now to have been buddies with drug lord Amado Carrillo Fuentes.
Gertz Manero stated the attorneys representing Chavez Jr. have requested at the very least 5 injunctions in Mexico, which have been rejected as a result of the boxer remains to be in america.
“Lawyers in the United States are working to see if he stays there, and we’re prepared if he comes here,” Chavez Sr. stated. “We’ll fight under Mexican law if he’s transferred here.”
The son’s arrest got here solely days after the previous middleweight champion misplaced to influencer-turned-boxer Jake Paul in a bout in Anaheim, California.
The Division of Homeland Safety stated officers decided Chavez Jr. must be arrested on June 27, the day earlier than the combat. It was unclear why they waited to behave for days after the high-profile occasion.
“Why did they let him fight? My son has been paying taxes in the United States for three years, and now in Mexico they’re accusing him of money laundering,” Chavez Sr. stated. “Yes, he knows those people, but that doesn’t mean I’m a drug trafficker. Let’s trust the law.”
