US EditionUS Sanctions Cartel Leader 'El Marro,' Says He's Still Operating From Prison
The Treasury froze assets of the Guanajuato cartel and leader El Marro for fuel theft and laundering, linked to $827 million in suspicious transactions, officials said.
- On Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury's OFAC designated the Guanajuato-based Cartel de Santa Rosa de Lima and Jose Antonio Yepez Ortiz, freezing U.S. assets and barring American business, according to officials.
- After a May Financial Crimes Enforcement Network alert, banks reported more than $827 million in suspicious transactions, with an average transaction size of $5 million in Florida and Texas border towns such as Brownsville, Mission and Eagle Pass.
- U.S. officials say CSRL steals fuel from Pemex by bribing insiders, siphoning pipelines, and hijacking tankers, then smuggles crude disguised as `waste oil` to unscrupulous importers.
- U.S. officials warn the cartel traffics heroin into the United States and links violence to Guanajuato, Mexico, while imprisoned Jose Antonio Yepez Ortiz allegedly directs operations, complicating enforcement.
- This move follows earlier actions targeting the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and builds on CSRL’s 2014 founding amid turf wars in the 'Bermuda Triangle' pipeline region.
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By Rocío Muñoz-Ledo, CNN en Español The United States government announced sanctions Wednesday against the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel and its leader, José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, alias “El Marro,” for heading a fuel theft and smuggling network that has contributed, according to the Treasury Department, to increased violence in Mexico and a cross-border “illegal energy market.”
The U.S. sanctions the Santa Rosa Cartel in Lima and its leader for the violence in Guanajuato The Treasury Department holds the criminal group responsible for the struggles for the control of fuel smuggling. It is led by José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, sentenced in Mexico to 60 years in prison By; Paulina Flores Ramírez-El Pais The U.S. Treasury Department has reported on Wednesday that it has sanctioned the Santa Rosa Cartel in Lima and José Antonio…
US Treasury Sanctions Mexican Cartel Over Fuel Theft
The Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned the Cartel de Santa Rosa de Lima (CSRL), a Mexican cartel that derives most of its illicit revenue from oil and fuel theft operations, the Treasury said in a statement on Dec. 17. The department, said CSRL’s fuel theft operation is based in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato. “The violent conflict between CSRL and the notorious Mexican terrorist Cartel Jalis…
The Treasury Department stated that José Antonio "El Marro" Yépez Ortiz operates from prison a cross-border black fuel market that undermines U.S. oil and natural gas companies. By sanctioning yesterday the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel (CSRL) as a transnational criminal organization, the Treasury pointed out that the capo affects U.S. interests and deprives the Mexican government of crucial revenues in the energy sector. "CSRL's activities contribu…
The U.S. Treasury Department has launched a dart this Wednesday against the Mexican prison system, hidden in an announcement of sanctions against a criminal leader, one of the ones it reports every year. The Treasury has explained that it has decided to punish José Antonio Yépez Ortiz, alias Marro, leader of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel (CSRL), for his “industrial-scale” fuel theft operation in the state of Guanajuato, in the center of the coun…
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