This Tuesday, the United States accused groups “linked to Chinese clandestine banking” of helping the Sinaloa Cartel launder more than $50 million in drug trafficking.
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Twenty-four people are charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine and money laundering offenses In an accusation released this Tuesday by the US Department of Justice in a statement.
An investigation “uncovered an association between partners of the Sinaloa Cartel and a Chinese criminal mafia that operated in Los Angeles and China to launder drug money,” said the director of the United States Anti-Drug Agency (DEA). cited in the note.
After close coordination with the Justice Department, China and Mexico reported that they “recently arrested fugitives” named in the indictment, Washington said.
The main defendant, Edgar Joel Martínez-Reyes, 45, and others used different methods to hide the origin of the money, he adds.
Laundering drug money gives the Sinaloa Cartel the means to produce and import its deadly poison into the United States.
“Laundering drug money gives the Sinaloa Cartel the means to produce and import its deadly poison into the United States,” Milgram said.
The Biden administration accuses Mexican cartels of producing fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that causes tens of thousands of deaths a year in the United States.
As part of the investigation, authorities have seized approximately $5 million in drug trafficking proceeds, 136 kilos of cocaine, 41 kilos of methamphetamine, 3,000 ecstasy pills, almost 20 kilos of psilocybin (magic mushrooms), as well as ketamine. , three semi-automatic rifles and eight pistols.
A senior member of the Sinaloa cartel is murdered in Mexico
On May 31, armed men murdered a senior member of the Sinaloa cartel, identified as “Cheyo” Ántrax, who is the nephew of Ismael “Mayo” Zambada, one of the leaders of that organization.
A source from the Sinaloa government confirmed to AFP the death of Eliseo Imperial Castro, who according to the Mexican press was ambushed by armed men while traveling in his vehicle on a highway in Culiacán, capital of Sinaloa.
Imperial Castro was wanted by US authorities for trafficking methamphetamines, cocaine, marijuana and money laundering.
The US Treasury Department identified him as a senior member of “Los Ántrax”, one of the armed arms of the Sinaloa cartel.
According to that agency, Imperial Castro operated in the name of “Mayo” Zambada, currently a fugitive and for whom the United States offers a reward of 15 million dollars.
The Sinaloa Cartel is one of the largest and most violent criminal groups in Mexico, which maintains its power in the country despite the capture and extradition to the United States of its leader Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán and his son Ovidio.
Just on May 25, Mexico extradited to the United States Néstor Isidro Pérez, identified as “Nini”, who was one of the main hitmen of that criminal organization.
The cartel takes its name from the state of Sinaloa, located in northwest Mexico and an important center for the production of marijuana and poppy, the raw material for heroin.
Together with the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), the Sinaloa Cartel is one of the dominant criminal organizations in the country, says the US anti-drug agency (DEA).
It is estimated that their networks extend to fifty countries, according to the organization Insight Crime.
The Sinaloa Cartel exports and distributes large quantities of fentanyl, heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana to the United States, and also dominates the corridors of Arizona and California to send drugs.
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