OFAC Sanctions People, Companies Linked to Mexican Drug Trafficking Group

The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned five people and two companies for their ties to La Linea, which OFAC said is a “violent” Mexican drug trafficking group that moves fentanyl and other drugs into the U.S.

The designations target senior members and associates of the group, including Josefa Yadira Carrasco Leyva, Jorge Adrian Ortega Gallegos, Jesus Salas Aguayo and Adrian Aguayo. OFAC also sanctioned Heber Nieto Fierro, a La Linea drug trafficker and money launderer who owns the two designated companies: R.y H. El Remate, Sociedad Anonima de Capital Variable, and Soluciones Tecnologicas y Paqueteria Tres, Sociedad Anonima de Capital Variable.

Treasury Deputy Secretary Wally Adeyemo said if the group “continues to directly contribute to the proliferation of deadly fentanyl throughout our communities, Treasury will continue to use every [tool] in our arsenal to go after their criminal activity.”