The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday blacklisted three Mexican nationals and a similar number of businesses for their alleged roles in laundering money for Ismael Zambada Garcia, a top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. One of Treasury's targets was Jose Antonio Nunez Bedoya, a Mexican lawyer and notary public. Nunez helps create front companies that are used to launder money for Zambada, his family, and other members of the Sinaloa Cartel, Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said when announcing the sanctions. Nunez also notarized real estate purchases on behalf of Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin Guzman Loera and his wife, Griselda Lopez Perez, both whom were blacklisted by OFAC in September 2012, the agency said. "Treasury will continue to target and disrupt financial operations linked to the Sinaloa Cartel by taking action against any facilitators, legal or financial professionals, or businesses that are laundering their narcotics proceeds," said OFAC Director Adam
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