Last Updated: July 7, 2026

Horst Walter OVERDICK MEJIA

Aliases

Walther OVERDICK MEJIA

TIGRE

Nationality

Guatemala

Date of birth

1967-07-31; 1968-07-31

Address

KM 208, Ruta Hacia, Coban, Guatemala

Reg. ID

0-16 Reg 53089, Identification Number; 0-16 89159, Identification Number; 702787-7, NIT #

Function

Drug cartel

Official reason

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today announced the designation of Guatemalan national Horst Walter Overdick Mejia, a critical link in the drug trade between Colombian producers and the violent Mexican drug cartel Los Zetas, as a specially designated narcotics trafficker. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York unsealed an indictment of Overdick Mejia for his narcotics trafficking and related firearms activities.

Sender

Other Information

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/tg1528

Date of listing

2012-04-10

Program information

Authority

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.

Additional Details

SDN

Program URL

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/05/17/2021-10314/narcotics-trafficking-sanctions-regulations-and-foreign-narcotics-kingpin-sanctions-regulations

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