OFAC Sanctions Mexico-Based Drug Network
The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned eight Mexicans and 12 Mexico-based companies that it said have ties to the Sinaloa Cartel’s Los Chapitos faction, a group designated in June for helping to traffic fentanyl to the U.S. (see 2506090023).
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The designations target a chemical and laboratory equipment company, as well as the members of the Favela Lopez family who run that company and other chemical, lab equipment and agriculture-related businesses. OFAC said the companies and the family provide and ship precursor chemicals for and to Sinaloa Cartel members and associates. The agency also sanctioned "front persons" installed by the family to run the companies, along with a Sinaloa Cartel-affiliated chemical broker and several chemical and industrial cleaning companies.