A witness says 'El Chapo' Guzman paid off a Mexican president with a $100 million bribe

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• A witness in the trial of Mexican kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman says the drug lord bribed Mexico's previous president with a massive sum.
• One of Guzman's lawyers first mentioned the allegation in his opening statement, naming two previous Mexican presidents.
• The trial has been filled with accusations of bribery, but both presidents have denied the allegations.

A Colombian drug trafficker described as Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's right-hand man who spent several years hiding in northwest Mexico with him says the accused Sinaloa cartel chief paid a former Mexican president a $100 million bribe.

Hildebrando Alexander Cifuentes-Villa, known as Alex Cifuentes, said during testimony on Tuesday that Guzman paid $100 million to President Enrique Peña Nieto, who was in office from December 2012 to December 2018.

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