The US government imposed economic sanctions on eight members of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, including the supervisor of a major trafficking route to smuggle fentanyl and other drug into the United States, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday
WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 22nd September, 2021) The US government imposed economic sanctions on eight members of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel, including the supervisor of a major trafficking route to smuggle fentanyl and other drug into the United States, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday.
"Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Mexican national Sergio Valenzuela Valenzuela as a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficker pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act)," the Treasury Department said in a press release.
Based in Nogales in the Mexican state of Sonora, Valenzuela oversees a major drug trafficking corridor and is responsible for smuggling tons of fentanyl and other drugs into the United States, the release said.
Valenzuela� reports directly to the Sinaloa Cartel Leader Ismael Zambada Garcia (a.k.a. El Mayo), who was previously sanctioned by the United States, the release also said.
Valenzuela is also a fugitive facing a September 2018 drug trafficking indictment returned by a Federal district court in the state of California, the release added.
In addition to Valenzuela, OFAC also designated seven other Mexican nationals, including Valenzuela's right-hand man, Leonardo Pineda Armenta, who directs operations for him, and six cartel lieutenants, according to the release.
