MEXICO CITY: The USA is sanctioning 9 members of Mexico’s Sinaloa Cartel and the chief of Colombia’s Clan del Golfo drug trafficking organisation, the US sanctions workplace OFAC mentioned in an announcement on Tuesday (Sep 26).
The people sanctioned embody Colombian nationwide Jobanis de Jesus Avila Villadiego, often known as Chiquito Malo and believed to be the present chief of Clan del Golfo, which the US State Division says is chargeable for the majority of cocaine manufacturing and trafficking in Colombia.
Avila Villadiego is accused of ordering a homicide marketing campaign focusing on Colombian safety forces final 12 months after the announcement {that a} former Clan del Golfo chief can be extradited to the USA.
OFAC additionally sanctioned 9 Mexico-based people it mentioned have been chargeable for drug trafficking on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel and its Los Chapitos wing.
These embody alleged fentanyl traffickers Liborio Nunez Aguirre, Samuel Leon Alvarado and Carlos Mario Limon Vazquez, accused of working a community of laboratories that synthesize precursor chemical compounds into fentanyl for distribution in the USA.
Brothers Leobardo and Martin Garcia Corrales have been additionally accused of utilizing proceeds from fentanyl gross sales to purchase computerized rifles, grenades and different weapons, in keeping with OFAC.
The US workplace additionally sanctioned Jorge Humberto Figueroa Benitez, whom it accused of commanding a violent group of Los Chapitos sicarios, and Mario Alberto Jimenez Castro, accused of working a cash laundering group utilizing digital foreign money and wire transfers.
It additionally sanctioned two alleged associates of Jimenez Castro; Julio Cesar Dominguez Hernandez whom it accused of importing and promoting cocaine and methamphetamine in the USA, and Jesus Miguel Vibanco Garcia, accused of importing fentanyl.
The USA has been searching for elevated cooperation from each Mexico and China in curbing the stream of fentanyl and its precursor chemical compounds, which have fuelled a pointy rise in US overdose deaths.