The US sanctions six Mexicans for supporting the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, including a municipal police officer

USA imposed economic sanctions on six Mexicans, including a police chief, for supporting or acting on behalf of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), which traffics much of the fentanyl and other drugs that enter the North American country, the Treasury Department announced Thursday. .

Among those sanctioned stands out Severo Flores Mendozaa municipal police “corrupt” that “provides police information to the CJNG in exchange for bribes”, assures the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the Department of the Treasury in a statement.

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He is currently the police chief of Ameca, in Jalisco (central-east), and coordinator of police chiefs in the Valles de Jalisco region, made up of 14 municipalities and located between Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, he adds.

Puerto Vallarta is a strategic bastion of the CJNGnot only for drug trafficking but also for money laundering and extortion.

The Treasury also sanctions Julio César Montero Pinzón, who “orchestrate assassinations of rivals and politicians”as well as four relatives of Saúl Alejandro Rincón Godoy, alias Chopa, a deceased senior official of the CJNG. Specifically his mother, two brothers and a brother-in-law.

“Violence and corruption have been fundamental to the development of the CJNG during the last decade”, Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian E. Nelson said, quoted in the statement.

As a result of these sanctions, all property and interests in property of these individuals that are in the United States or in the possession or control of Americans are blocked.

These types of sanctions are not necessarily permanent, but are issued with the purpose of motivating a change of behavior on the part of the identified persons.

Source: Elcomercio

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