Sinaloa prosecutor urges merchants to report extortion
By Cartel Insider Wire Desk · Edited by Mica Treviño
Original reporting: Café Negro Portal
What happened
Claudia Zulema Sánchez Condo said the FGE had received no formal complaints over protection-payment demands and urged threatened business owners to report incidents, Café Negro Portal reported.
Reporting and context
Sinaloa’s attorney general says her office has received no formal complaints over protection payments demanded by criminal groups, despite complaints voiced by merchants in Culiacán, Mazatlán and Escuinapa, according to Café Negro Portal.
State prosecutor Claudia Zulema Sánchez Condo urged business owners and merchants who have received threats or suffered extortion to report the incidents to the Fiscalía General del Estado (FGE). Café Negro Portal reported that her statement concerned the absence of formal complaints submitted to the agency.
The outlet described merchants’ complaints as allegations of cobro de piso, or demands for protection payments, by criminal groups. Sánchez Condo called on people receiving threats to visit the prosecutor’s office and file the corresponding complaints.
She said reporting the incidents was important so authorities could intervene and prevent harm to commercial activity and the local economy. The report did not identify particular criminal groups or give a count of the merchants affected.
Separately, Sánchez Condo said approximately nine femicide cases had been recorded in Sinaloa during November, including in Badiraguato, Mazatlán and Escuinapa, among other municipalities. The source presented that figure as a separate update, without linking those cases to the extortion allegations.
Source: Café Negro Portal.