Last Updated: January 19, 2026
Joel Efren RUELAS AVILA
Nationality
Mexico
DoB
1978-09-20
Address
Calle 10 Sin Numero, Localidad Genaro Estrada, Sinaloa, Mexico
Reg. ID
RUAJ780920HSLLVL02, C.U.R.P.; RUAJ780920C10, R.F.C.
Official reason
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today increased its pressure on major Mexican heroin traffickers by targeting individuals and companies close to the new leadership of the Ruelas Torres drug trafficking organization (Ruelas Torres DTO). Treasury imposed additional sanctions on eight Mexican individuals ...
Other Information
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm0305
Date of listing
2017-05-24
Program information
Authority
US
Program
Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 598
Regime
OFAC-horizontal
Target State
Drugs
Measures
Blocking Property
Official Information
The Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 598 (FNKSR), implement the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (21 U.S.C. 1901–1908), which provides authority for the application of sanctions to significant foreign narcotics traffickers and their organizations operating worldwide.
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