They offer five million dollars for information to capture the children of Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán

The US government imposed sanctions on Wednesday against international drug trafficking networks in Brazil, Mexico and China, offered millionaire rewards for numerous individuals, including the sons of drug lord Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán.

He also announced the creation of a Council on Transnational Organized Crime with which he seeks to pursue this type of activity with greater agility.

Among the new sanctions, announced in separate statements from the Treasury Department and the White House, is Primeiro Comando Da Capital (PCC), considered the most powerful criminal group in Brazil whose operations reach the United States and Europe from South America.

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Likewise, he pointed out as a drug trafficking organization two Mexican groups from the Beltrán Leyva cartel: Los Rojos and Guerreros Unidos, whom he considers responsible for much of the heroin trafficking from Mexico to the United States.

Finally, Washington included in its list of drug lords the Chinese citizen Chuen Fat Yip, who leads a network in China dedicated to the sale of fentanyl and various chemical precursors; and several Chinese companies involved in these operations Wuhan Yuancheng Gongchuang Technology, Shanghai Fast-Fine Chemicals and Hebei Atun Trading.

As a result of the designation, the assets that these entities and companies may have under US jurisdiction are frozen and they are prohibited from doing financial transactions with US citizens.

The new council established by US President Joe Biden through an executive order will include the participation of officials from the departments of Justice, Treasury, State, Defense, Homeland Security and the office of the National Director of Intelligence.

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“Drug trafficking organizations are among the most significant and resourceful threats facing the United States,” said a senior US official, who requested anonymity, in a phone call to introduce the initiative.

With the creation of the Council, he indicated, Washington seeks to have greater “agility and flexibility” to pursue these criminal networks that “increasingly function as international conglomerates” and whose operations pose “a risk to the stability and efficiency of markets and systems. financial ”.

“Their activities include large-scale corruption and violence, undermining the rule of law and endangering democratic governments,” he added.

He also pointed out that these organizations “have put aside hierarchical structures” and are “now more decentralized, with their financial agents with little contact with drug lords, which complicates their detection by the authorities.

The official especially warned of the damage being caused in the US by the networks involved in the trafficking of synthetic opiates, such as fentanyl, which have accelerated overdoses in the country with more than 100,000 deaths in the last year.

Simultaneously, the State Department announced the offering of rewards by various individuals, complementing the actions announced by the Treasury Department and the White House.

Among other individuals covered by this measure, the State Department offers five million dollars for information leading to the arrest or conviction of Mexicans Ovidio Guzmán López, Iván Archivaldo Guzmán Salazar, Jesús Alfredo Guzmán Salazar and Joaquín Guzmán López, sons of the Chapo Guzman.

“All four are high-ranking members of the Sinaloa cartel and each is subject to federal indictment for their involvement in illicit drug trafficking,” the State Department said in a statement.

Joaquín “el Chapo” Guzmán Loera, former leader of the Sinaloa cartel, was extradited from Mexico to the United States on January 19, 2017 and sentenced to life in prison on July 17, 2019 in a Federal Court in New York. He is currently serving his sentence in a maximum security prison in Colorado. (I)