Mica for cartelinsider.com
Through the figure of asset forfeiture, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) obtained more than 100 favorable rulings, representing a blow of more than 400 million pesos affecting criminals from various criminal organizations.
Among the criminal structures that were affected is the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, a leader of the Tepito Union, and even Miguel Angel Treviño, alias El Z-40, the latter being one of the most wanted men in the country and one of the first criminals to implement the “floor fee”.
According to the authorities, “the operation of high-profile criminal individuals and groups is affected” in different parts of the country, the FGR detailed in a statement shared on January 7th.
Intelligence reports indicated that among the affected is El Jamón, a leader of the Tepito Union captured in 2019 who assumed command after the arrest of El Pistache. Specifically, the Unit Specializing in Domain Extinction (UEMED) obtained 114 positive sentences, totaling 456,095,835 pesos.
The preceding within a timeframe of 2019 to 2023 and other people affected by these actions are six individuals of Chinese origin which would be linked to the Sinaloa Cartel and are known as Los Chinos de Polanco, according to intelligence reports.
No names of people of Chinese origin were reported, however, the presence of the criminal group in the country’s capital considering it as a strategic area. According to reports from 2022, the Sinaloa Cartel was operating in Tlalpan, Xochimilco, Coyoacán and Tláhuac and Gustavo A. Madero.
At the beginning of 2021, two alleged operators of Ismael El Mayo Zambada were arrested in Polanco along with two weapons and five kilograms of cocaine.
Likewise, the La Riviera Maya Band, which was led by Romanian Mihai Alexandru Preda, would be one of the criminal structures affected with the domain seizures reported by the FGR.
“With this, the correct application of public policies for crime prevention, derived from the patrimonial, economic and fiscal damages to criminal group structures, is guaranteed,” appears at the end of the FGR report.
It should be remembered that last August the FGR reported on the securing of nearly 140 million pesos through the figure of asset forfeiture, with the attainment of 51 favorable rulings.
Among the things seized by the authorities in recent years is a teddy bear which had 200 thousand pesos in 500-peso bills hidden inside, which was going to be sent through a courier company from Jalisco to Mexico City.
In October 2022, the FGR seized five real estate properties in Zapopan, Jalisco from Rafael Caro Quintero, as they were acquired with illicit resources, specifically from the sale of drugs.
Cartels are often associated with various criminal activities that allow them to generate income such as drug dealing, extortion, kidnapping, trafficking of migrants, even jellyfish fishing, among others.
A study conducted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2018 calculated that criminal groups generate 600 billion pesos a year; that is, what amounts to 33,165 million dollars, however, there is usually not much information about the money linked to drug trafficking due to the nature of its criminal activities.
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