US EditionUS Treasury sanctions a chain of ice cream shops and a pharmacy tied to the Sinaloa Cartel
- The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned two Mexican businesses linked to the Sinaloa Cartel for using fentanyl trafficking proceeds.
- The Office of Foreign Assets Control reported that individuals cited for money laundering established the ice cream chain in Sinaloa.
- Jesús Norberto Larrañaga Herrera and Karla Gabriela Lizárraga Sánchez created "Nieves y Paletas," financed with drug profits, as stated by the U.S. Treasury Department.
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US Sanctions A Chain Of Ice Cream Shops And A Pharmacy Tied To The Sinaloa Cartel
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday said it sanctioned two Mexican businesses — an ice cream chain and a local pharmacy — for allegedly using proceeds of fentanyl trafficking to finance their operations tied to the Sinaloa cartel. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control — the U.S. agency that combats illicit funds and money laundering — said people previously cited for money laundering had set up a chain of ice cream and popsicle shops i…
Ice cream shops and pharmacy linked to ruthless Mexico cartel, U.S. Treasury Department says - Jaun News English
The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday said it sanctioned two Mexican businesses – an ice cream chain and a local pharmacy – for allegedly using proceeds of fentanyl trafficking to finance their operations tied to the Sinaloa cartel. The move comes as rival cartel factions have been in a deadly conflict with each other and authorities following the surprise arrest on U.S. soil of Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada in late July, …
The United States has also sanctioned the company Nieves y Paletas, a business that sells ice cream in Culiacán, in the state of Sinaloa.
“The Department of the Treasury will continue to be relentless when it comes to interrupting the funding that fuels illegal fentanyl trafficking, including the companies that line the pockets of members of the Sinaloa Cartel,” said the undersecretary of the North American government department, Wally Adeyemo, in a statement released today. One of the targets of the sanctions is José Miguel Demoya Hernández, who was accused by a federal court in …
The U.S. Department of the Treasury said it “will continue to be relentless in disrupting the funding that fuels the illegal fentanyl trade.”
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