Jose de Jesus MENDEZ VARGAS

Mexico

1974-02-28; 1973-08-06; 1989-09-18

El Coloma, Michoacan; Eduardo Neri, Guerrero; Acapulco de Juarez, Guerrero

Tazumbos, Jalisco, Mexico; Calle Dr. Lose Luis Mora Col Morelos, Apatzingan, Michoacan, Mexico; Calle Carlos Salazar Col Buenos Aires, Apatzingan, Michoacan, Mexico; Toluca, Mexico, Mexico; Calle Acatitla 122, Col. Ferrocarril, Apatzingan, Mexico; Potrero Grande de C de Paracuaro, Apatzingan, Mexico; c/o Club Abaro, Ave Vicente Villada, Mexico City, Municipio de Mexico City, D.F., Mexico

MEVJ890918HGRNRS09, C.U.R.P.

Drug cartel

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated seven key leaders of the international drug trafficking organization La Familia Michoacana (La Familia) as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNTs).   Today's designation targets two principal leaders of La Familia, Nazario Moreno Gonzalez (El Chayo) and Jose de Jesus Mendez Vargas (El Chango), and five of their lieutenants.

US

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/tg564

2010-02-25

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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