After exhausting all appeal options, a Canadian truck company owner suspected of smuggling millions worth of cocaine into Canada for notorious Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman is set to be extradited to the U.S. from Curacao.
Though the charge refers simply to “five kilograms or more,” Koretskyy is suspected of conspiring to move huge quantities of drugs from Mexico to America and then over the Canadian border for El Chapo’s Sinaloa Cartel and its partner group, Colombia’s Cifuentes-Villa crime gang. He is allegedly implicated by recorded conversations and the revelations of unnamed narcos who have confessed to their own roles.
Koretskyy’s indictment had existed since January 2014, but was not unsealed until after his 2018 arrest. He has never appeared before the courts in Canada for similar offences, and was free to fly from Toronto to Curacao before he was detained. Part of his appeal focused on the fact that Canada had shown no interest in his case.
When the Post asked the RCMP about this warrant, they said they would “not comment on specific investigative methods, tools and techniques outside of court.” While the affidavit summary, which draws on the confessions of other traffickers as well as U.S. surveillance operations, does not name any of those accused in the alleged trafficking ring it does indicate Koretskyy’s identity. It alleges he went to meet a cartel leader in Mexico at the end of 2012 or early 2013, doing a deal at that meeting to move three loads of cocaine from the U.S. to Canada.
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