US sanctions networks of the Gulf Extended family and the Sinaloa Cartel to battle fentanyl trafficking

MADRID (EUROPA PRESS).- The US Division of the Treasury as of late sanctioned 5 Colombian voters and two firms primarily based in Mexico connected to the paramilitary staff Extended family del Golfo, in addition to the prison group Sinaloa Cartel to battle fentanyl and human trafficking.

“Treasury will proceed to be relentless in disrupting the investment that fuels the illicit fentanyl industry, together with the firms that line the wallet of Sinaloa Cartel contributors,” Treasury Undersecretary Wally Adeyemo mentioned in a remark as of late.

Particularly, the sanctions have an effect on José Miguel Demoya Hernández, who used to be charged via a US federal court docket in August 2023 with cocaine trafficking. He’s lately a fugitive from US justice and may be sought after via the Colombian govt for his involvement within the Extended family del Golfo.

Washington’s blacklist additionally comprises Alexander Celis Durango, thought to be the highest monetary boss of the Gulf Extended family and who used to be charged in March 2021 via a US federal court docket with cocaine trafficking. He used to be arrested via Colombian government in 2023 and stays anticipating extradition to the US.

Every other of the ones sanctioned is José Gonzalo Sánchez Sánchez, thought to be ‘2d in command’ within the Extended family del Golfo. Additionally at the record are José Emilson Cordoba Quinto and Wilder de Jesús Alcaraz Morales for his or her duty in controlling the migratory drift alongside the Darién Hole, in addition to for the transportation of more than a few medicine within the territory managed via the aforementioned prison staff.

The US additionally sanctioned Nieves y Paletas, an organization that sells ice cream in Culiacán, within the state of Sinaloa, and surrounding municipalities, corresponding to Pueblos Unidos and Tacuichamona. It makes use of, consistent with the Biden Management, “drug earnings, together with the ones derived from the illicit sale of fentanyl.”

After all, Farmacia y Mini Tremendous Trinidad used to be incorporated within the record for being owned via drug trafficker José Arnoldo Morgan Huerta, alias ‘Chachio’, sanctioned in November 2023 for main the Sinaloa Cartel’s operations in Nogales.

Morgan Huerta, who additionally oversees drug trafficking from Mexico to the US, used to be charged via a U.S. court docket in April 2021 with trafficking medicine together with fentanyl, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. He stays a fugitive from justice, the Treasury Division mentioned.