The U.S. Treasury Department said Wednesday it imposed Kingpin Act sanctions on four Colombian individuals and 12 companies tied to a Colombian national linked to the head of the Mexico-based Sinaloa drug cartel.
Announced by Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, Colombian nationals Mauricio Barcenas Rivera, Omar Mejia Zuluaga and Ana Maria Uribe Cifuentes, and dual Uruguayan/Ecuadorian national Jesus Maria Castro all had their U.S. assets frozen. The companies are spread across Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama and Uruguay.
The companies and individuals are all linked, according to the announcement (pdf), to Jorge Milton Cifuentes Villa, who was sanctioned by OFAC in February. Villa’s organization, OFAC said, is closely tied to Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin Guzman Loera, known as Chapo Guzman.
Both Guzman and Villa were indicted on drug-trafficking and money-laundering charges in Florida in November 2010, and Villa was separately indicted in New York in February 2011 on drug-trafficking charges, according to Treasury’s notice.
The full list of Wednesday’s designations is available here, and a chart diagramming Villa’s drug network is here (pdf).
Source: The Wall Street Journal by Samuel RUBENFELD
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