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The United States Department of the United States imposed sanctions on Wednesday to more than a dozen Mexican companies and four people who, they say, worked with a powerful drug trafficking poster to cheat US elderly in a multimillionaire of dollars Shared time fraud.

The network of 13 companies in areas close to the coastal tourist destination of Puerto Vallarta was accused of working with the Jalisco New Generation postera group designated by the United States government as a foreign terrorist organization.

In a scheme dating from 2012, four poster associates are accused of defrauding US citizens of their life savings through elaborate rental and resale schemes, according to a Treasury statement. In the period of six months, the authorities said they could document $ 23.1 million sent from most people in the United States to scammers in Mexico.

The sanctions imposed by the Trump administration would prohibit Americans from doing business with the alleged poster associates and blocking any of their assets in the United States.

“We will continue our effort to completely eradicate the ability of the posters to generate income, including their efforts to take advantage of major Americans through shared time fraud,” said the United States Treasury Secretary Scott Besent, in a statement.

In recent years, the administration of then President Joe Biden also sanctioned associates and counters related to such schemes.

In December 2023, American officials said that the Jalisco cartel was so bold when the fraud operated that the gang operators Functioned as officials of the United States Treasury Department.

Violent poster supposedly behind the shared time scam

The Jalisco poster, known for its Spanish initials as the CJNG, has killed the workers of the call center trying to quit smoking. In June 2023, US and Mexican officials confirmed that up to eight young workers were confirmed after apparently tried to leave work in a call center operated by the Jalisco poster.

The poster is better known for producing millions of doses of mortal fentanyl and smuggling them in the United States disguised as to resemble Xanax, Pecocet or Oxycodone. Such pills cause 70,000 overdose deaths per year in the United States.

The Department of Justice has called the Jalisco cartel “one of the five most dangerous transnational criminal organizations in the world.” The leader of the poster, Nemesio Oseguera, also known as “The Mencho,“It is among the most requested Mexican and American authorities. The United States government has offered a reward of up to $ 15 million for information that leads to arrest or condemns” El Mencho “.

Wednesday’s announcement was made in the midst of continuous effort by the Trump administration and the Mexican government to take energetic measures against the posters and their various sources of income.

The United States Treasury Department has slapped sanctions to a variety of people from a Mexican rapper who accused of washing the money from the poster to Mexican banks that facilitate money transfers in sales of precursor chemicals used to produce fentanyl.

The announcement also occurred one day after Mexico sent 26 high -ranking poster figures For the United States in the last important agreement with the Trump administration while Mexico tries to avoid threatened tariffs.

“These transfers are not only a strategic measure to guarantee public safety, but also reflect a firm determination to prevent these criminals from continuing to operate from prisons and to break their influence networks,” Mexican Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said on Wednesday at a prison conference on Wednesday.

However, the mass transfer was not part of the broader negotiations, since Mexico seeks to avoid higher tariffs threatened by President Trump, authorities said.

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