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He US Department of the Treasury This Tuesday he sanctioned five Colombian citizens and two companies based in Mexico and linked to a paramilitary group Gulf Clanand also a criminal organization Sinaloa Cartel to combat traffic from fentanyl and from People.

“The Treasury will continue to ruthlessly destroy financing what fuels illegal trafficking fentanylincluding companies that line the pockets of members Sinaloa Cartel“, the department’s deputy minister said on Tuesday, Wally Adeyemoin the statement.

In particular, the sanctions affect Jose Miguel Demoya Hernandez, who was charged in a US federal court in August 2023 with cocaine tradeHe is currently a fugitive from US justice and is also wanted by the Colombian government for his involvement in Gulf Clan.

TO ‘blacklistAlso added from Washington is Alexander Celis Durango, considered the top US financial officer. Gulf Clan and who was indicted in a U.S. federal court in March 2021 on cocaine trafficking charges. He was arrested by Colombian authorities in 2023 and remains awaiting extradition to the United States.

Another of those sanctioned is Jose Gonzalo Sanchez Sanchez, who is considered “second in command‘ in the Gulf clan. The list also includes Jose Emilson Cordoba Quinto and Wilder de Jesus Alcaraz Morales for their responsibility in control of migration flows throughout the whole Darien Gapas well as for the transportation of various drugs in the territory controlled by the above-mentioned criminal group.

The US also imposed sanctions against the company. Snow And Palletsa business that sells ice cream V Culiacanin the state of Sinaloa and surrounding municipalities such as Pueblos Unidos and Tacuichamona. It uses what the Biden administration says are “drug revenues, including those derived from the illegal sale of fentanyl.”

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Finally, Farmacia y Mini Super Trinidad was included on the list because it is owned by drug trafficker José Arnoldo Morgan Huerta, alias “Chachio,” who was sanctioned in November 2023 for leading the activities of Sinaloa Cartel in Nogales.

Morgan Huerta, who also oversees drug trafficking from Mexico to the United States, was indicted in a U.S. court in April 2021. traffic drugsincluding fentanyl, cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine remains fugitive from justiceThe Ministry of Finance reported this.

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