The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) ordered the blockade of accounts of 15 companies, a deputy of Morena and six other people, after the Treasury department included them in their list of sanctioned for their alleged participation in a network linked to the faction ‘Los Mayos’, of the Sinaloa Cartel.
The measure, Hacienda explained in a statement, is preventive, does not constitute a judicial resolution and is part of the mechanisms of international cooperation against money laundering and terrorist financing.
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The statement details that the treasure designated 22 objectives in Mexico: seven natural persons and 15 moral people.
Among the individuals aimed by the United States is Hilda Araceli Brown Figueredo, former mayor of beaches of Rosarito (2021-2024) and current federal deputy for District 9 of Baja California.
In an interview with Milenio Televisión, the Morenista legislator rejected that her assets have been blocked, and that she even recently traveled to the United States without any problem.
He also argued that he has not received any notification of authorities from the United States or Mexico.
According to the Treasury, the FIU instructed the blockade of the accounts and goods and announced the analysis of the financial information of those indicated to, where appropriate, give immediate view to the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).
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The financial authority stressed that the integration of international lists allows to coordinate with the national financial system to prevent illegal resources from entering or dispersed in the economy.
The sanctions coincide with the visit to Mexico of the Undersecretary of the Treasury of Financial Terrorism and Intelligence, John K. Hurley.
According to Washington, the sanctioned network operates as part of ‘Los Mayos’ in Baja California and Sinaloa, where Brown would have collaborated through “collecting extortion payments” that would serve to guarantee institutional protection for various criminal activities such as drug trafficking and money laundering.
The Department of the Treasury designated the Sinaloa cartel as a foreign terrorist organization in advance, since it maintains that it is an organization that continues to traffic narcotics, washed their profits and corrupted local officials.
With EFE information
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