The US government has announced new economic sanctions and an alert of financial crimes targeting the powerful cartel of Jalisco New Generation (CJNG) and its fuel flight network.
The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on “three Mexican nationals and two Mexican entities linked to” the CJNG.
Also Thursday, The American network of the application of financial crimes (Fincen) has published an alert Using American financial institutions to be vigilant in the detection, identification and reporting of suspicious activities linked to the contraband of crude oil stolen in Mexico in the United States
A press release from the State Department Said “a key network of Mexico involved in fentanyl traffic, fuel flight and raw oil smuggling”.
Sanctions freeze all the assets that individuals or businesses have in the United States and prohibit American citizens from doing business with them.
The American treasure identified the three men as The Serbian of Morphin, claims that the plural of Cjng,. The United States has also sanctioned two companies, Servicios Logísticos Ambientales and Grupo Jala Logística, who declared that he had worked directly or indirectly for Caesar Morfin, carrying stolen fuel between the United States and Mexico
“This network generates hundreds of millions of dollars a year, benefiting the narco-terrorist company in CJNG through a series of criminal activities, including fentanyl traffic, fuel flight and Mexico crude oil smuggling,” said the treasury statement.
The fuel combat network has led to tens of millions of dollars who lost income against the Mexican government, said the Treasury.
Alert Fincen said that the CJNG, the Sinaloa cartel, the Gulf cartel and the “other transnational criminal organizations based in Mexico” were actively involved in fuel smuggling.
“(F) UEL Flight in Mexico, including smuggling crude oil, has become the most important non-medication source of unlikely income for cartels and allows them to maintain their global criminal companies and their drug traffic operations in the United States,” the alert said.
Fincen allegedly alleged that the cartels used “Mexican brokers accomplices in the oil and gas industry” to pass and sell crude oil stolen from the oil company of Mexico Pemex to “accomplices, small oil and natural gas companies based on the American border in the Southwest.
The alert said that cartels get crude oil by welding corrupt Pemex and local government employees, but also illegally typing oil pipelines and stealing refineries.
Brut oil is then transported to tanker trucks through the southwest border of the United States, said Fincen, poorly labeled like “waste oil” or other dangerous materials linked to the process of refining oil and natural gas to avoid examination and escape taxes.
The US Treasury Department previously sanctioned the CJNG in April 2015 and December 2021 and in February, The US State Department has appointed the CJNG a foreign terrorist organization and specially designated world terrorists.
In September, the Treasury sanctioned nine Mexican nationals and 26 Mexico companies would have been involved in the CJNG fuel flight network.
In trade negotiations with Mexico, the White House said that Mexico should be held responsible for its promises to stop illegal immigration and prevent fentanyl and other drugs from sinking to the United States
This week, Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum said her party in Congress was trying to fight fuel flight and smuggling by strengthening government tools to ensure the traceability of fuel expeditions.
“Regarding any tanker truck carrying fuel … We will know: where it comes from; where it goes; if it is imported, with what import permit it has entered, where it was in store and from which service station it is taken,” said Sheinbaum, according to the Associated Press.
With reports from Infobae,, The Associated Press,, The financier
