Computer revealing Los Zetas' accounting records seized in Spain

Juan Manuel Muñoz Luévano, who goes by the alias “El Mono” (the monkey), kept detailed accounting records of the Mexican cartel Los Zetas' transactions for sales to Europe. Two computers were seized by Spanish authorities containing two key documents: an Excel document with 5 spreadsheets and a Word document. These two documents revealed all of the criminal group's earnings in 2012 and 2013, according to an article published by the Spanish newspaper El País.

According to El País, which had access to and reviewed these files, there are 59 entries of millions of dollars in cash that were delivered to cartel leaders in several different hotels and shopping malls in Mexico City.

The cartel group carried out the transactions in super market parking lots, several well-known hotels such as the Regente, Marquis Reforma, Camino Real Polanco, and the Reforma 222 and Antara Polanco luxury shopping malls.

The Excel spreadsheet and Word document described in great detail cocaine deliveries to Europe, the respective earnings, the price per kilo and the date and place the cash was delivered.

U.S. authorities have requested that Spain extradite Muñoz Luévano, who's currently being investigated on charges of running a money-laundering ring through a network of gas stations he owns in Mexico. According to El País, the spreadsheets showed that the transactions totaled an incredible 75.6 million dollars over the two year period.

Muñoz Luévano was arrested in March of this year after being investigated by Spanish police for years, which included listening in on his phone calls.

Muñoz Luévano was heard on many occasions threatening and extorting people, and even ordering to have people killed from his home in a residential neighborhood in Madrid, where he lived with his family. Spanish investigators became suspicious of El Mono after several neighbors reported his suspiciously flashy and lavish lifestyle.

In one of the phone calls, he can be heard telling someone to “fuck him up”, and in another chilling call, he tells one of his cartel members to “kill his entire family,” referring to a debtor who had gone on the run.

El Mono was also heard ordering to have an “old man's” store burned down: “If you guys can't do it, just find any faggot who can go and burn down his fucking store.” A few days later, he was sent pictures of the store in ruins.