Washington (EFE) .- United States sanctioned six people and seven companies that accuses of forming a money laundering network for the Sinaloa Cartel, an organization recently classified by President Donald Trump as a terrorist.
According to the United States Department of the Treasury, that network uses facade companies to transfer to Mexico the benefits that the Sinaloa Cartel obtains in the United States through drug trafficking, including fentanyl.
The sanctions block the properties and goods of those sanctioned in the United States and prohibits any person from carrying out commercial transactions with them.
“Drug trafficking money laundering is the engine of the narcoterrorist activity of the Sinaloa Cartel and is only possible thanks to financial facilitators of trust such as those we have designated today,” said Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, in a statement.
Besent warned that the treasure “will use all the available tools to chase anyone who helps cartels boost their crime and violence campaign.”
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The sanctions on Monday are the result of an investigation by several US agencies, such as the FBI and DEA, in collaboration with the Government of Mexico.
The United States has sanctioned more than 600 people and companies linked to the Sinaloa Cartel over time.
After assuming power last January, Trump declared the Sinaloa Cartel and other Mexican drug trafficking groups as foreign terrorist organizations.
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