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    Treasury Labels MS-13 Transnational Criminal Organization

    • October 11, 2012, 11:12 AM

    Treasury Labels MS-13 Transnational Criminal Organization

    By Samuel Rubenfeld

    The U.S. Treasury Department said Thursday it placed Mara Salvatrucha, known as MS-13, under sanctions that target transnational criminal organizations.


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    An inmate belonging to the Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, gang stands inside the prison in Ciudad Barrios, El Salvador.

    MS-13 is being targeted for its involvement in drug trafficking, kidnapping, human smuggling, sex trafficking, murder, assassinations, racketeering, blackmail, extortion and immigration offenses, Treasury said. As a result of the designation, Americans are banned from transacting with MS-13, and any property the group has in the U.S. is blocked.
    The executive order under which MS-13 is being targeted gives Treasury the power to target transnational criminal organizations with economic sanctions. When issued in July 2011, it included four organizations — the Brother’s Circle, the Camorra, the Zetas and Yakuza — in its annex. MS-13 is the first new addition.

    “MS-13 is an extremely violent and dangerous gang responsible for a multitude of crimes that directly threaten the welfare and security of U.S. citizens, as well as countries throughout Central America,” said David Cohen, undersecretary of Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, in a statement.

    “This action positions us to target the associates and financial networks supporting MS-13, and gives law enforcement an additional tool in its efforts to disrupt MS-13’s activities,” he said.

    MS-13 consists of at least 30,000 members in a range of countries, including El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico, and it’s one of the most dangerous and rapidly expanding gangs in the world, Treasury said. Members are often recognized by their tattoos.

    The gang is active in the U.S., with at least 8,000 members operating in more than 40 states and Washington, D.C. In the U.S., it’s involved in an assortment of crime, including murder, drug trafficking, sex trafficking and human trafficking, Treasury said.

    It frequently carries out violent attacks on rival gang members, and members have been responsible for numerous killings within the U.S., Treasury said.

    Local cliques take direction from the group’s foreign leadership, Treasury said, and money generated by the local cliques is consolidated and funneled to the leadership in El Salvador.

    Since 2006, Treasury said Immigration and Customs Enforcement has arrested more than 4,000 MS-13 members, and the Justice Department has handed up indictments in many MS-13 racketeering cases in Washington, D.C., Virginia, New York, San Francisco, Houston and Atlanta.

    “History has proven that we can successfully take down organized crime groups when we combine sophisticated investigative techniques with tough street-level enforcement, cutting off cash flows, contraband and collaborators to ensure they no longer find safe haven in our communities,” said John Morton, director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in the statement.

    Write to Samuel Rubenfeld at Samuel.Rubenfeld@dowjones.com. Follow him on Twitter at @srubenfeld.

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    U.S. blacklists two Mexican firms linked to Sinaloa drug cartel

    October 11, 2012 at 3:04 AM by AHN

    Fourth Estate Cooperative Staff

    Washington, United States (4E) – The United States Treasury Department on Wednesday slapped sanctions on two Mexican companies linked to Sinaloa drug cartel’s leader Jose Esparragoza Moreno.

    One of the blacklisted companies is Cancun-registered Socialika Rentas y Catering, S.A. de C.V. Moreno’s daughter Brenda Guadalupe Esparragoza Moreno owns this event planning company. Urbanizadora Nueva Italia, S.A. de C.V., is a real estate company in Guadalajara. Juvencio Ignacio Gonzalez Parada owns the company.

    The Treasury Department has put both the owners on its sanctions list for acting on Sinaloa’s behalf. “Today’s action serves as a reminder to Esparragoza Moreno that he and his organization remain in our sights,” Adam Szubin, Director of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, said in a statement.

    He added many Mexican entities in its private sector have voluntary cut their ties with Esparragoza Moreno’s corporate network.

    “However, it should be noted that any company or individual that continues to act on behalf of or support this network could become the target of sanctions,” he noted.

    The sanctions will restrict American businessmen from doing any kind of transactions with the two blacklisted companies. The U.S. has also frozen the companies’ assets, which were under U.S. jurisdiction.

    The U.S. had declared Esparragoza Moreno and the Sinaloa cartel as foreign narcotics traffickers in 2003 and 2009 respectively. In 2003, Moreno is on the U.S. most wanted list after he indicted on drug trafficking charges. Washington has also offered a $5 million reward for Moreno’s arrest, while Mexico offered $2.35 million for his capture.

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