FBI seeks alleged CJNG-linked financial operator

Tribuna de la Bahía reports that the FBI is seeking Griselda Margarita Arredondo Pinzón, whom U.S. authorities describe as an alleged financial operator linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). The report says Arredondo Pinzón lived in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, and that U.S. authorities have identified her in connection with an alleged international timeshare-fraud scheme targeting people in the United States. The source does not report an adjudicated finding against her and presents the matter as an active U.S. search.

According to the account published by Tribuna de la Bahía, the FBI has republished its request for information and offers a reward of up to $2 million for information leading to Arredondo Pinzón’s arrest and/or conviction. The translated source says her name appears on the FBI’s Organized Crime Most Wanted list and among people sought by the agency’s New York office. It also says U.S. authorities allege that she worked from a CJNG-controlled location in Puerto Vallarta where call-center operations connected to timeshare fraud were monitored and money from victims was received and laundered.

The source says the U.S. Justice Department has reported roughly 6,000 U.S. victims and about $350 million in losses from timeshare-fraud schemes in Mexico between 2019 and 2024. Tribuna de la Bahía also reports that Arredondo Pinzón was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control over an alleged role in CJNG-linked fraud schemes, and that authorities connected her to a previously sanctioned company. The report does not establish her current location, and the claims should be understood as allegations attributed to U.S. authorities and the source outlet.