Last Updated: July 16, 2026

Oscar ALVAREZ ZEPEDA

Date of birth

1979-09-15

Place of birth

Badiraguato, Sinaloa, Mexico

Address

Avenida Francisco Solis No. 30-B, Colonia Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Culiacan, C.P. 80010, Sinaloa, Mexico; Boulevard Universitarios No. 789, Local 4, Colonia Villa Universidad, Culiacan, C.P. 80010, Sinaloa, Mexico; Localidad San Jose del Barranco S/N, Badiraguato, C.P. 80500, Sinaloa, Mexico

Reg. ID

AAZO790915HSLLPS09, C.U.R.P.; AAZO790915AL6, R.F.C.

Function

Drug cartel

Official reason

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) today designated three individuals with ties to Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin Guzman Loera (a.k.a. Chapo Guzman) as Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers (SDNTs) pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act). Two of the individuals designated today, Mexican nationals Oscar Alvarez Zepeda and Joel Valdez Benites, are from Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico.

Sender

Other Information

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/tg1392

Date of listing

2012-01-10

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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