The U.S. Treasury Department is sanctioning leaders of another of Mexico’s notorious drug cartels.
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control is targeting five individuals it says are leaders of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel.
That includes cartel leader Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho,” one of the most wanted people in North America. The U.S. State Department is offering a reward of up to $15 million for information leading to his arrest or conviction.
The sanction list also includes four other individuals suspected of being high-ranking members of the same cartel. The Treasury Department says one is a prime suspect in the recent killing of a beauty influencer in Mexico, who was shot while livestreaming on social media.
These sanctions come shortly after new sanctions from the U.S. on suspected leaders of the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel. The Trump administration designated several of Mexico’s drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations earlier this year.
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