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A group of Republican MPs asked US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday to sanction to a tobacco shop Tobacco International Holdings (THIS) registered in Switzerland, after information
A group of Republican MPs asked US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday to sanction to a tobacco shop Tobacco International Holdings (THIS) registered in Switzerland, after information that attributes ties to Mexican cartels.
senators Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Rick Scott, Bill Hagerty and b also requested the right of veto for their directors and their subsidiaries and affiliates due to their special relationship with Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
The group is based on information published in the press indicating that Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Mexico opened an investigation THIS given the existing suspicions about these links.
Photo: REUTERS/Janet Yellen
“TIH, with the open assistance of former and current members of the Mexican government and the threat of reprisals from cjng, it has monopolized the tobacco market in several Mexican states,” Yellen said in the letter.
Conservative MPs point out that CJNGunder US sanctions for participating in drug trade and from fentanylhas been selling tobacco products “since at least 2018” to generate a new source of income.
IMexican tobacco industry registered sales in 2019 amounting to about 4 billion dollars. “Even a small fraction of these sales could support an unsustainable expansion of fentanyl trafficking operations in CJNG“, they warned.
Rubio and the rest of the senators said they were pretending to Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) The US Department of the Treasury to impose sanctions on this international tobacco company, which is said to have “at least one” subsidiary in the United States.
According to these legislators, “it is imperative to act” before said company “can further expand its mafia business practices” in the United States.
(EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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