OFAC Sanctions Senior Members of Mexican Cartel

The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned five Mexico-based leaders of Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, which the agency said is a "brutally violent" cartel that helps traffic fentanyl and other illegal drugs into the U.S. The designations target CJNG’s leader, Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, and senior officials Julio Alberto Castillo Rodriguez, Gonzalo Mendoza Gaytan, Audias Flores Silva and Ricardo Ruiz Velasco. Each of the cartel members has been previously designated by OFAC except for Ruiz, who's the prime suspect in the recent murder of Mexican influencer Valeria Marquez during a live TikTok broadcast.