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Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit, a part of the finance ministry tasked with combating and preventing money laundering, said Tuesday it had asked banks to freeze nearly 2,000 accounts allegedly linked to the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Diego Ore wrote for Reuters on June 3, 2020.
It is the latest sign of Mexico’s commitment to step up its fight against organized crime after US President Donald Trump backed off from his threat to designate Mexican cartels as terrorist groups.
The United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) considers the cartel, known under the Spanish acronym CJNG, as one of the most prolific drug trafficking organizations in the world that is now flooding the US market with methamphetamine.
“The operation is the result of the joint work carried out by the institutions that make up the security cabinet ... over several months,” the Mexican unit said in a statement. It said it managed to have 1,770 bank accounts of individuals frozen as well as 167 for companies and two trusts linked to the CJNG.