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MEXICO CITY
The US Treasury Department on Friday sanctioned a Mexican transnational criminal organization said to be responsible for smuggling thousands of immigrants to the US since 2018.
Located in the Mexican border city of Mexicali in northwest Mexico, the group was led by Ofelia Hernandez Salas, also known as “La Lupe”. United States.
Hernandez Salas, allegedly linked to the Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico’s largest and most violent drug cartels, was arrested in March, along with Raul Saucedo Huipio, for human trafficking, theft and fraud in a joint operation by Mexican authorities, the United States and the United States. Interpol.
Jesus Gerardo Chavez Tamayo, an executor of the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC); Fatima Del Rocio Maldonado Lopez, who provided false documents and shelter for immigrants, and Federico Hernandez Sanchez, who helped Hernandez Salas smuggle immigrants.
Under the sanctions, all of the defendant’s property and “interest in the property” in the US or “owned or controlled by US persons” will be blocked.
In addition, “any entity that is individually or collectively owned by 50 percent or more of one or more blocked persons is also blocked,” directly or indirectly.
Hernandez Salas, Saucedo Huipio and their associates were imprisoned in Mexico awaiting extradition to the United States.
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US sanctions on Mexican immigrant smuggling
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