FIU blocked a bank account of Ovidio Guzmán, son of “El Chapo”, reports Santiago Nieto

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“We find from people of Chinese nationality with significant cash flows: 300, 400, 500 million pesos of a single individual in a year, making deposits and transfers that go to China, for which it uses foreign trade as a mechanism for the 'money laundering', he said.

The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit (SHCP), signed 36 bank account blocking agreements of 122 natural born citizens and legal residents persons related to criminal groups, such as the Sinaloa Cartel, Unión Tepito, the Zetas and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

Within the framework of its participation of a diploma organized by the University of the Americas in Puebla, Santiago Nieto Castillo, head of the FIU, informed that the banking institutions will take approximately 48 hours to make their request effective and that during this period it will be possible to know Frozen money amounts.

The federal official recalled that so far this year more than 990 million pesos have been blocked in accounts related to the organized crime group, because the blocking of available resources of criminals is part of the Government's security strategy Federal.

Nieto Castillo also revealed that among the 330 accounts blocked last week, and related to the Sinaloa Cartel, is one belonging to Ovidio Guzmán López, alias “El Ratón”, son of the boss Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera, “El Chapo ”, Arrested and then released during the failed operation carried out on October 17, in Culiacán, Sinaloa.

The federal official said that reforms to the law should be considered, as there are cases of accounts linked to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, for 2 million dollars and 24 million pesos, which are abandoned and whose resources are under the power of the banks.

The head of the FIU stated that in recent dates, 42 people linked to the CJNG, headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho”, was blocked, together with the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC, for its acronym in English) of the Department of the Treasury of the United States, for 2 million dollars and 70 million pesos.

Nieto Castillo said that at the moment the FIU is focused on the review of cases related to drug trafficking, after starting the year with the issue of theft of hydrocarbons, after dealing with migrant people and trafficking, political corruption, façade and billing companies .

On November 26, Nieto Castillo reported that from January to October of this year, the FIU has filed 148 complaints with the Attorney General's Office (FGR), in which 798 individuals and legal entities are investigated for alleged money laundering.

During his participation in the seminar 'Violence and Peace', organized by the College of Mexico (Colmex), the federal official revealed that they detected irregular financial operations for various amounts: 304 billion pesos in deposits, 269 billion in withdrawals and one thousand 940 million dollars.

“We find from people of Chinese nationality with significant cash flows: 300, 400, 500 million pesos of a single individual in a year, making deposits and transfers that go to China, for which it uses foreign trade as a mechanism for the 'money laundering', he said.

Likewise, Nieto Castillo presumed that in the last 10 months the accounts of 858 people (physical and moral) have been blocked, representing amounts for 5 thousand 325 million pesos and 47 million dollars blocked, including 330 bank accounts linked to the Sinaloa cartel, which was led by "El Chapo".

The federal official added that resources from the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG) have also been frozen; as well as the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, dedicated to the theft of fuel or huachicol. Regarding the blockade of the Sinaloense criminal group, Nieto Castillo said it was carried out thanks to information provided by the Mexican intelligence organs.

In addition, it has been financially "affected" to an organization dedicated to the lenocinio and trafficking of persons, whose leader was arrested in Cancun, Quintana Roo, and who used a website to promote the sexual services of the victims, said the head of the FIU .