Current:Home > InvestUS sanctions 9 tied to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and leader of Colombia’s Clan del Golfo-LoTradeCoin
US sanctions 9 tied to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and leader of Colombia’s Clan del Golfo
View Date:2024-12-23 16:13:31
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury has announced sanctions against nine affiliates of Mexico’s Sinaloa drug trafficking cartel, as well as the current leader of Colombia’s powerful Clan del Golfo criminal enterprise.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated all 10 for their roles in drug trafficking, meaning any of their assets in the United States will be blocked and U.S. citizens are generally prohibited from dealing with any of their assets.
The nine affiliates of the Sinaloa cartel follow a U.S. indictment unsealed in April that targeted a branch of the Sinaloa cartel run by the sons of former leader Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Mexico extradited one of those sons, Ovidio Guzmán López, earlier this month to the United States. The sons were identified as leading producers and traffickers of the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl.
“Today’s actions reinforce the United States’ whole of government approach to saving lives by disrupting illicit drug supply chains,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.
Monday’s sanctions include several other people named in that indictment including people who assisted with security, the actual movement of fentanyl to the U.S. and the laundering of drug profits back to the cartel in Mexico.
The sanctions against Colombian Jobanis de Jesus Avila Villadiego coincide with the meeting of the United States-Colombia Counternarcotics Working Group in Bogota. Avila, better known as “Chiquito Malo,” took over the Clan del Golfo in 2022 after it was announced the group’s previous leader would be extradited to the U.S. Avila launched an offensive targeting Colombian security forces in retaliation.
Avila is under indictment in the Southern District of Florida for cocaine trafficking and in the Eastern District of New York for being engaged in a continuing criminal enterprise.
veryGood! (13)
Related
- See Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani's Winning NFL Outing With Kids Zuma and Apollo
- Former Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democrats’ VP pick in 2000, dead at 82
- Who are the victims in Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse? What we know about those missing and presumed dead
- Why Michael Strahan's Daughter Isabella Is Struggling to Walk Amid Cancer Battle
- Burt Bacharach, composer of classic songs, will have papers donated to Library of Congress
- A man has been arrested for randomly assaulting a young woman on a New York City street
- GirlsDoPorn owner goes from FBI's Most Wanted List to San Diego court appearance
- New spicy Casey McQuiston book 'The Pairing' comes out this summer: What fans can expect
- Wisconsin agency issues first round of permits for Enbridge Line 5 reroute around reservation
- Federal judges approve redraw of Detroit-area state House seats ahead of 2024 election
Ranking
- Cowboys owner Jerry Jones responds to CeeDee Lamb's excuse about curtains at AT&T Stadium
- A faster spinning Earth may cause timekeepers to subtract a second from world clocks
- Jason Kelce Teases Brother Travis Kelce About Manifesting Taylor Swift Relationship
- President Biden to bring out the celebrities at high-dollar fundraiser with Obama, Clinton
- Jennifer Hudson, Kylie Minogue and Billy Porter to perform at Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade
- Interior Department rule aims to crack down on methane leaks from oil, gas drilling on public lands
- Illinois Supreme Court to hear actor Jussie Smollett appeal of conviction for staging racist attack
- MLB Opening Day games postponed: Phillies vs. Braves, Mets-Brewers called off due to weather
Recommendation
-
Krispy Kreme is giving free dozens to early customers on World Kindness Day
-
Alabama sets May lethal injection date for man convicted of killing couple during robbery
-
Missing workers in Baltimore's Key Bridge collapse presumed dead | The Excerpt
-
Children's author Kouri Richins tried before to kill her husband, new counts allege
-
Congress is revisiting UFOs: Here's what's happened since last hearing on extraterrestrials
-
Kansas considers limits on economic activity with China and other ‘countries of concern’
-
Federal judges approve redraw of Detroit-area state House seats ahead of 2024 election
-
'Home Improvement' star Zachery Ty Bryan charged after arrest with felony DUI, hit and run