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US sanctions drug trafficking networks in Brazil, Mexico and China

The US government imposed sanctions on Wednesday against international drug trafficking networks in Brazil, Mexico and China at the same time that it announced the creation of a Council on Transnational Organized Crime with which it seeks to more agilely pursue this type of activity.

Among the new sanctions, released through 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.

He also 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.

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 present the initiative.

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

Its 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 that the networks involved in the trafficking of synthetic opiates, such as fentanyl, are causing in the United States, which have accelerated overdoses in the country with more than 100,000 deaths in the last year.

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