The Treasury Department on June 18 sanctioned five leaders of Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), including the leader known as “El Mencho” and the main suspect in the killing of influencer Valeria Márquez.
“Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned five Mexico-based leaders of Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG),” the agency said in a statement.
When the OFAC sanctions someone, that individual’s assets are frozen, or inaccessible, and U.S. citizens are barred from doing business with him.
“OFAC is designating CJNG’s notorious leader Ruben Oseguera Cervantes (a.k.a “El Mencho”), along with three other senior cartel members” and “is also sanctioning a CJNG commander, closely linked to El Mencho … as the prime suspect in the recent murder of Mexican influencer Valeria Marquez during a live social media broadcast,” the statement said. …