OFAC Sanctions People, Entity With Ties to Mexican Arms Trafficking Group

The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned three people and one entity with ties to Mexico’s Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG), a sanctions arms trafficking organization. The designations target two senior CJNG members -- Alonso Guerrero Covarrubias and Javier Guerrero Covarrubias -- as well as Mary Cruz Rodriguez Aguirre, who directs a money laundering network on behalf of CJNG using currency exchange house Nacer Agencia Panamericana de Divisas y Centro Cambiario, S.A. de C.V.