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The wallet is tied to a money laundering operation that transfers proceeds from fentanyl sales to Sinaloa cartel leaders in Mexico, officials said.
The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned an Ethereum wallet tied to Jimenez Castro, a Mexican male with ties to the Sinaloa cartel.
Castro is one of 10 names listed on OFAC's sanctions list as a part of a counter narcotics operation, according to a published list on OFAC's website.
The wallet in question was first active in January or this year and received around $740,000 in deposits to Binance in a two month period, data from Arkham shows.
A U.S. Treasury press release states that Jimenez Castro "operates money laundering organization that uses virtual currency and wire transfers, among other methods, to transfer proceeds from illicit fentanyl sales in the United States to Sinaloa Cartel leaders in Mexico."
But but but the govt cant control crypto! Lol
ReplyDeleteIt can't and it doesn't. You're confusing "control" (central bank, printing monet ect) with crimes surrounding crypto.
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Funny how US agencies work with cartels to smuggle drugs and later there's some other agencies looking for them to lock them up for it, while there's some other agencies working on taking that money lol
ReplyDeleteNo winners on drug game ONLY government
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DeleteNot really no period kid 😭.
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Delete2:40 Cheerleader and wannabe cartel mugroso detected.
ReplyDeleteOff topic but our daughter returned to Tuxtla, Chiapas Monday after a one week visit. She that had been a shootout between the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels somewhere near the airport. Anymore news on this?
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Deletedamm wtf sorry to hear that
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DeleteVirtual currency?! F that! I want a fat stack of hundos!
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