Mexico

1972-04-03; 1960; 1966

Plaza Pabellion, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico; Colonia Providencia, Calle Quebec, Apt. 1127, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; 4179 Colonia Miravalle, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; Sendero Las Acacias 92, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; Vereda Del Canario 1, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico; Puerto de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico; Fresno, CA, United States

In May 2009, the Eastern District of New York charged the organization’s leaders Esteban and Luis Rodriguez Olivera with narcotics trafficking and money laundering.  According to the indictment, Los Gueros imported more than 100,000 kilograms of cocaine into the United States between 1996 and 2008.  In 2007, Esteban and Luis Rodriguez Olivera were charged in the U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia with drug trafficking in relation to a 2006 Mexican Navy seizure of over five tons of cocaine.  Esteban and Luis Rodriguez Olivera were later extradited to the United States.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jl2170

2011-02-01

US

Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Sanctions Regulations, 31 C.F.R. part 598

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Drugs

Blocking Property

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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