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    El Chapo trial: accountant exposes details of cartel's vast operations

    Jesús Zambada García lays out Sinaloa cartel’s complex financial structure as his former boss listens in New York
    by Ed Vulliamy in New York Nov 15, 2018 4 minutes
    Authorities escort Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán from a plane at MacArthur airport in New York state. Photograph: AP

    The inner workings – and vast financial scale – of what is alleged to be the world’s biggest narco-trafficking organisation, the Sinaloa cartel, began to be laid bare on Wednesday by a former leader of the syndicate, Jesús Zambada García, testifying against his own immediate boss, Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, on trial in New York.

    Zambada, the cartel’s chief accountant for more than 15 years, said his brother, Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, and Guzman were considered the top leaders of the Sinaloa cartel.

    Jesús Zambada García in 2008.
    Jesús Zambada García in 2008. Photograph: Alberto Vera/AFP/Getty Images

    Ismael Zambada, now presumed to be running the organisation, is said by

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