Uses biker outlaw gangs, Mencho is now Australia's top target for "Ice" trade, having 75% of the market

Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat material from Au Daily Telegraph

Mencho responsible for 75% of meth into Australia the second greatest user in the OECD world...CJNG already a 20 Billion dollar drug enterprise

MEXICO’S deadliest narco, has ordered his cartel to target Australia, forge closer ties with outlaw biker gangs and open regional meth labs in a move that has already pushed ice use in this country to the second highest level in the world.

His name is Ruben Nemesio Oseguera ‘El Mencho’ Cervantes, one of the founders of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

After the arrest of Joaquín ‘El Chapo‘ Guzmán, a new narco is poised to take up the void in the drug market and he has his sights set on Australia.

The Australian Federal Police have specifically set their sights on CJNG who they allege has targeted the Australian drug market.

‘Mexico has been a weakness for us in the past as we didn’t have a presence there but since (October 2017) last year that changed when we opened up a post in Mexico  and  we saw what was happening,’ a senior AFP law enforcer said.

It’s believed at the height of El Chapo’s Sinaloa cartel’s stranglehold on the drug trade, he had control of at least 60 per cent of the Australian trade.

Leaving behind a void upon his extradition to the United States, which Mencho has already filled.

AFP officials believe El Mencho could be responsible for as much as 75 per cent of all meth being trafficked into Australia.  

Colombian, Mexican and Australian authorities are working together to prevent El Mencho from gaining a stronger foothold.

It’s complex. It’s about sharing intelligence on the organised crime level to disrupt their criminal activities and that’s already paying off.’

‘The comprehensive counter drug strategy has three pillars, harm reduction, supply reduction and demand reduction. Law enforcement is about supply reduction … that’s what we are responding to and working closely with overseas authorities, like in Mexico with the Mexican Federal Police,’ the AFP spokesman said.

Australia presents an opportunity to the cartel because it is the second highest user of methamphetamine in the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) world.

Australia is also one of the highest users of cocaine per capita.

DEA and Mexican drug authorities said the rapid rise of CJNG was partly because of the drug trade in Australia.

Despite this they said they were still shocked at how quickly El Mencho and his cartel were able to consolidate power, already building up a $20 billion drug empire.

In 2017 and 2018 alone, seizures of meth in Australia have tripled from previous years, with 3762 kgs seized in the last year

They also theorize that while US and Mexican authorities targeted El Chapo, El Mencho was able to move toward trafficking drugs into Australia, relatively under the radar.

The United States are currently offering a US$10million reward for his capture.

While Mexican authorities are offering MXN$30 million for any information that would lead to his capture.

And in 2015 the United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control added El Mencho to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, or ‘Kingpin Act’.

A White House statement outlined the ‘Kingpin Act’ as an effective tool against cartel leaders.

‘Its purpose is to deny significant foreign narcotics traffickers, their related businesses, and their operatives access to the U.S. financial system and to prohibit all trade and transactions between the traffickers and U.S. companies and individuals,’ the statement read.

‘The Kingpin Act authorizes the President to take these actions when he determines that a foreign person plays a significant role in international narcotics trafficking.’