MEXICO CITY — The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned 10 Mexican residents, together with a brother-in-law of Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, Wednesday for alleged involvement within the manufacturing and trafficking of the highly effective artificial opioid fentanyl.
Those sanctioned by the Office of Foreign Assets Control had been allegedly related to the sons of Guzmán, the so-called Chapitos, who U.S. prosecutors blame for a lot of the fentanyl trafficked into the United States.
“This action was coordinated closely with the Government of Mexico and targets entities and individuals from one of the most pervasive drug trafficking organizations in the world,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken mentioned in an announcement.
Among the targets was Noel López Pérez, a brother of El Chapo’s second spouse Griselda López Pérez. Guzmán is serving a life sentence within the United States for drug trafficking as a frontrunner of the infamous Sinaloa cartel.
The sanctions additionally goal the Mexico State-based REI Compania Internacional, which the Treasury Department mentioned receives chemical precursor shipments from China.
The sanctions block any belongings the targets might have within the United States and prohibit U.S. residents from having any dealings with them. Two others named for sanctions are cousins of the Chapitos.
In April, U.S. authorities introduced rewards resulting in the arrests of three of these sanctioned Wednesday, together with López Pérez, but additionally together with Oscar Noe Media González and Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas.
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