World-renowned drug lord in attention-grabbing change in career

Narkobaronen El Chapo is famous for having dedicated his working life to act with drugs, and now is spreading his product portfolio from drugs to also cover fashionable drugs.

The imprisoned 'druglord' has from his cell signed a contract that gives a company owned by his wife, Emma Coronel, the rights to use his name and signature as a mark.

It writes CNN.

the Company called 'El Chapo Guzman: JGL LCC', and the first collection is scheduled to launched this summer. It says his lawyer Mariel Colon Miro to CNN.

'I am very excited to begin this project, which is based on ideas and concepts, which my husband and I got several years ago,' says El Chapos wife, Emma Coronel, in a press release.

'It is a project dedicated to our daughters.'

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Although narkobaronen lent its name to the tøjmærket, he gets according to another of its lawyers is not something financial out of it.

'He would put something up - a legitimate enterprise - for his daughters' and wife's sake. He loves his wife, and he loves his daughters, and he will prepare them for the future, " says lawyer Michael Lambert, according to CNN.

El Chapo with the civil name Joaquín Guzmán sits in currently in prison in Brooklyn, New York, after he in February was found to have driven a global narkokartel.

He must, therefore, only communicate with the outside world through his lawyers, and it has required a special permit before he was allowed to sign the contract that gave his wife's company the rights to 'El Chapo'name.

OVERVIEW: Mexico's biggest drug lord began with pot

Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzmán was 12. February 2019 at a court in New York has been found guilty of ten charges against him.

The sentencing will take place 25. June 2019.

Here is a timeline of the 61-year-old mexicaners life. He has become one of the world's most famous narkogangstere.

1960s: As a teenager, he begins together with his cousins to grow potplanter.

the 1970s: Starts working as stikirenddreng for drug traffickers.

the 1980s: Becomes a member of the Guadalajara cartel. After the arrest of the cartel leader of the criminal group split up into several factions. Guzmán becomes the leader of the cartel, Sinaloas stillehavsafdeling.

1992: Six of the Guzmáns of top officials will be in February found killed near Tijuana, at the border to the UNITED states. In november beats Guzmán back, as his people, killing six members of the rival Tijuana cartel at a disco.

1993: Survives assassination attempt in an airport, but the archbishop of Guadalajara, along with six other random people killed when they get caught up in skudvekslingen.

1993: arrested in Guatemala on suspicion of murder, drug smuggling and the abduction and extradition to Mexico. He imposed a penalty of a minimum of 20 years, to be served in a maximum security prison.

2001: Escaping from the prison hidden in a vasketøjsvogn. The escape requires help from the inside, and he uses the supposedly 2.5 million dollar bribe.

2004: the US government should offer a bounty of five million u.s. dollars for information that could lead to his arrest.

2008: the Son of Edgar is killed in a firefight in a parking lot in Mexico.

2009: Perform for the first time on pengemagasinet Forbes' list of dollarmilliardærer.

2010: Getting together with other kartelledere indicted by us authorities in the period from 1990 to 2005 to smuggle tons of cocaine to the UNITED states.

2011: His wife, Emma, who has both american and mexican citizenship, gives birth to twins at a hospital in Los Angeles.

2012: the ministry of Finance in the UNITED states imposes a freezing of his family's fortune and other assets in the country.

2014: arrested on a strandresort in Mexico, and resumes the execution of his sentence.

2015: Escapes again from a maximum security prison by crawling through a small opening in his cell, which leads down to an approximately one and a half kilometer long tunnel.

2015: While he is on the run he meets the film star Sean Penn, who interviews him for an article in the Rolling Stone.

- I deliver more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana than anyone else in the world. I have a fleet of submarines, aircraft, trucks and boats, he says.

2016: Will be in January again caught by the mexican police in the state of Sinaloa. Five of his henchmen is killed in the action.

2016: In may approve a judge a request from the UNITED states to extradite him. Seven states have been indicted by him.

2017: Will be extradited to the UNITED states in January and admits himself later in the same month innocent by a district court in New York.

2018: The long-awaited trial against him will be launched in november.

2019: 'El Chapo' is found guilty of a long series of crimes by a court in New York.

Source: CNN, AP.

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OVERVIEW: Mexico's biggest drug lord began with pot

Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzmán was 12. February 2019 at a court in New York has been found guilty of ten charges against him.

The sentencing will take place 25. June 2019.

Here is a timeline of the 61-year-old mexicaners life. He has become one of the world's most famous narkogangstere.

1960s: As a teenager, he begins together with his cousins to grow potplanter.

the 1970s: Starts working as stikirenddreng for drug traffickers.

the 1980s: Becomes a member of the Guadalajara cartel. After the arrest of the cartel leader of the criminal group split up into several factions. Guzmán becomes the leader of the cartel, Sinaloas stillehavsafdeling.

1992: Six of the Guzmáns of top officials will be in February found killed near Tijuana, at the border to the UNITED states. In november beats Guzmán back, as his people, killing six members of the rival Tijuana cartel at a disco.

1993: Survives assassination attempt in an airport, but the archbishop of Guadalajara, along with six other random people killed when they get caught up in skudvekslingen.

1993: arrested in Guatemala on suspicion of murder, drug smuggling and the abduction and extradition to Mexico. He imposed a penalty of a minimum of 20 years, to be served in a maximum security prison.

2001: Escaping from the prison hidden in a vasketøjsvogn. The escape requires help from the inside, and he uses the supposedly 2.5 million dollar bribe.

2004: the US government should offer a bounty of five million u.s. dollars for information that could lead to his arrest.

2008: the Son of Edgar is killed in a firefight in a parking lot in Mexico.

2009: Perform for the first time on pengemagasinet Forbes' list of dollarmilliardærer.

2010: Getting together with other kartelledere indicted by us authorities in the period from 1990 to 2005 to smuggle tons of cocaine to the UNITED states.

2011: His wife, Emma, who has both american and mexican citizenship, gives birth to twins at a hospital in Los Angeles.

2012: the ministry of Finance in the UNITED states imposes a freezing of his family's fortune and other assets in the country.

2014: arrested on a strandresort in Mexico, and resumes the execution of his sentence.

2015: Escapes again from a maximum security prison by crawling through a small opening in his cell, which leads down to an approximately one and a half kilometer long tunnel.

2015: While he is on the run he meets the film star Sean Penn, who interviews him for an article in the Rolling Stone.

- I deliver more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana than anyone else in the world. I have a fleet of submarines, aircraft, trucks and boats, he says.

2016: Will be in January again caught by the mexican police in the state of Sinaloa. Five of his henchmen is killed in the action.

2016: In may approve a judge a request from the UNITED states to extradite him. Seven states have been indicted by him.

2017: Will be extradited to the UNITED states in January and admits himself later in the same month innocent by a district court in New York.

2018: The long-awaited trial against him will be launched in november.

2019: 'El Chapo' is found guilty of a long series of crimes by a court in New York.

Source: CNN, AP.

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