U.S. CJNG coup d’état: they convicted a woman who laundered money through a grocery and tortilla shop

Anabella Sanchez Rios, money laundering operator of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) and Virginia, was sentenced to a fine of eight years in prison for admitting guilt

According to the Western District of Virginia in the United States, Sánchez Ríos was owner of a grocery and tortilla shop from where it bleached around 4 million 394 thousand $ 959 for two years, between 2016 and 2018. At the current exchange rate, that amount would represent approximately 87 million 899 thousand 180 pesos

The small company that also traded meat was located in Martinsville, Virginia, and while the scope of his activities was apparently modest, the proceeds of the drugs were transferred from here to the transnational group of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, The Mencho

“When individuals launder money for a drug cartel, play a fundamental role for the organization by hiding and transferring illegally obtained funds, perpetuating the cartel’s illegal activity and the scourge of the narcotics they mobilizeSaid Daniel Bubar, acting US attorney.

According to court records, Sánchez Ríos’s company had a contract with Intermex Wire Transfer, LLC, a company that offers the service to send money from the United States to various countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. The company was founded in 1994 in the capital of the United States and Oregon, from where they expanded to the entire North American country, the rest of the continent and Africa, according to records from 2019.

“With a state-of-the-art system, and The company has a network of more than 55,000 payment points and offers services in 49 states, Washington DC and Puerto Rico to 17 Latin American countriesHighlights the site, which also includes operations in Mexico.

In his statements, The 48-year-old admitted that she used her shop to launder the proceeds of the drug trade on behalf of the CJNG. He was in charge of receiving the dollars from those who worked for the Oseguera Cervantes group.In other words, he was fully aware of the origin of that money that came from illegal crimes.

Thereafter, she sent that money to several people in MexicoFor this he made electronic transfers in small amounts, while falsified and made up the names and addresses of the people who received the sums, with the aim of nature, location, source, hide property, as well as control of cash.

Sánchez Ríos was a participant in $ 4.3 million money laundering between May 10, 2016 and September 11, 2018, via Intermex from Bella’s Tortilla & Meat Market

The investigation of the case was conducted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Department of Homeland Security Investigations, the Office of the sheriff Henry County and Virginia State Police. United States Assistant Attorney Sean Welsh is pursuing the case in the United States.

“Drug cartels like the CJNG are committing unspeakable violence around the world and fuel the spread of deadly drugs such as fentanyl and heroinSaid Jarod Forget, head of the DEA in Washington.

In particular the convict was charged in March 2019 along with 11 other members of the CJNG, on allegations of narcotics trafficking and money laundering. But Only in June 2020 did this woman plead guilty.

A few years ago, when Sánchez Ríos was charged, the US authorities said so the CJNG was actively operating in the Shenandoah Valley and southern VirginiaOn March 25, 2019, the defendants appeared in Harrisonburg District Court.

She coincided with other operators of the criminal group accused of trafficking several pounds of cocaine, heroin and marijuana from Mexico to the United States. As part of your strategies, CJNG members recruited Mexicans to live in Winchester and Axton, Virginia, to facilitate the distribution of medicines. Narcotics were stored, packaged and distributed in homes in those cities; from there they sent the product to Winchester and other parts of the Mid-Atlantic region for redistribution.

The rest of those arrested were Ramón Carillo Ruvalcaba, The hairdresserEduardo Contreras Devora; Daniel Gómez Barajas; Román Idearte Bolaños; Alberto Jijon; Miguel Angel Patricio Cashier; Isdro Ramos Bojórquez, aka ChiloJesús Rogelio Ramírez, Jesse; Jonathan Rocas Osorio, aka Oscar Osorio MuñozRitchie Triplett; and Ernesto Valenzuela Flores, aliases Juan Flores Arrellano

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