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Jose de Jesus AMEZCUA CONTRERAS

Aliases

Chuey AMESCUA

Chuy AMEZCUA

Jesus AMEZCUA CONTRERAS

Jose de Jesus AMEZCUA

Adan HERNANDEZ

Date of birth

1964-07-31; 1964-07-31; 1965-07-31

Place of birth

Mexico

Function

Drug cartel

Official reason

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today named 10 individuals and six companies tied to the Amezcua Contreras Organization, a major Mexican drug trafficking organization, as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNTs). The designees, all based in Mexico, are now subject to economic sanctions pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act). the President identified Jose de Jesus and Luis Ignacio Amezcua Contreras as significant foreign narcotics traffickers pursuant to the Kingpin Act.

Sender

Other Information

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/hp1171

Date of listing

2000-06-01

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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