Violent CJNG cartel broke out for $ 300 million
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First on Fox: The Treasury Department sanctioned a network of people linked to a “brutally violent” cartel for hundreds of millions of dollars in time, targeting Americans in the popular tourist destination Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, Fox News Digital learned.
THE The Treasury Department now warns Current owners from time to time based in the United States and those who envisage the purchase of a multi-ownership based in Mexico, to carry out “appropriate reasonable diligence”. Authorities warn that scams often target older Americans who may lose their savings.
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Control of the control of foreign assets of the Treasury Department imposed sanctions on four Mexican people and 13 Mexican companies linked to time fraud led by the cartel of Jalisco Nueva Generacion (CJNG). Fraud -related individuals are based in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
“We come for terrorist drug cartels like the cartel of Jalisco Nueva Generacion who flood our fentanyl country,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in a statement. “These cartels continue to create new ways to generate income to feed their terrorist operations. In the direction of President Trump, we will continue our efforts to completely eradicate the capacity of cartels to generate income, including their efforts to tackle the older Americans by multi -ownership fraud.”
Scott Bessent, secretary of the Treasury, during an audience of the House Ways and Means Committee in Washington, June 11, 2025. (Eric Lee / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The three senior members of the CJNG most involved in the multi -ownership fraud sanctioned on Wednesday are Julio Cesar Montero Pinzon (Montero), Carlos Andres Rivera Varela (Rivera) and Francisco Javier Gudino Haro (Gudino).
In addition, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, originally from Michael Ibarra Diaz Jr. (Ibarra) was sanctioned. The treasure says that Ibarra is “engaged in a fraud with multiple ownership in the name of CJNG”.
Sanctioned companies are Akali real estate agents, Centro Mediador de la Costa, SA CV, Corporativo Integral de la Costa, SA CV, Corporativo Costa Norte, SA CV and Sunmex Travel, S. de RL de CV.
Another company involved in transactions related to the multi -ownership that has been sanctioned is TTR Go, its CV, they pretend to be only a travel agency.
Three additional companies have been sanctioned for their alleged real estate activities: Del Puerto Integral Inmobiliaria, SA CV, KVY BUCERIAS, SA CV and Servicios Inmobiliarios IBADI, SA CV
“This diversified network of companies also includes tour operators (Fishing Are Are Us, S. de RL de CV; Santamaria Cruise, S. de RL de CV), a car service company (Laminado Professional Automotriz Elte, SA CV) and an accounting company (Professional Convenes Almida, SA CV).
Cartel of Jalisco Nueva Generacion is a foreign terrorist organization designated by the United States. The officials said that the cartel is increasingly completing his product from drug trafficking with alternative sources of income such as multi -ownership fraud and fuel theft.
The officials said that the Mexico -based cartels have targeted the American owners from time to time via call centers in Mexico with fluid English teleprears. (Fox News / Alex Vros)
“The Treasury has taken a series of actions targeting the various sources of income benefiting cartels, including fuel theft, human smuggling, extortion and fraud,” said the Treasury Department. “While the Treasury and its partners seek to disrupt the sources of income from the cartels, it is important to remind the current owners of time time in Mexico: if an unsolicited purchase or rental offer seems too good to be true, this is probably the case.”
The Treasury added: “Those who plan to buy a multi -ownership in Mexico should cause appropriate reasonable diligence.”
The officials said that the Mexico -based cartels have targeted the American owners from time to time via call centers in Mexico with fluid English teleprears.
The officials said that from 2012, CJNG took control of the multi -ownership fraud regimes in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico and the surrounding area.
Scams often target older Americans “who can lose” their life savings, have warned managers, adding that the life cycle of scams can “in recent years, resulting in financial and emotional devastation of victims while enriching cartels like CJNG”.
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The officials said that the cartels generally obtained information on the American owners from time to time in Mexico from “initiates accomplices in stations from time to time for multiplies”.
“After obtaining information on multi-ownership owners, cartels, via their call centers, contact the victims by telephone or e-mail and claim to be brokers shared by third-party-based in the United States, lawyers or sales representatives in the multiplicity sectors, trips, real estate or financial services,” said the Treasury Department.
The FBI says that around 6,000 American victims said they had lost nearly $ 300 million between 2019 and 2023 in shared time fraud programs in Mexico. (Kurt “Cyberguy” KTUSSON)
Officials explained that fraud can include chronometric output scams or resale scams, multiple recovery scams and shared time investment scams.
“The common theme is that the victims are invited to pay” costs “and” taxes “before receiving money supposed to them,” warned officials. “This money never comes, and the victims are continuously informed to send these” costs “and” taxes “via transfers of international wire to accounts held in Mexican banks and brokerage houses.”
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After the initial scams, officials warn that “the reviews of Revictimization can occur”.
In July 2024, the network for applying financial crimes of the Treasury Department and the FBI published a joint note on fraud everywhere associated with cartels and criminal organizations based in Mexico.
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During the six-month period who followed this notice, Fincen received more than 250 suspicious activity reports, and the declarants declared approximately 1,300 transactions totaling $ 23.1 million, sent mainly of people based in the United States to the counterparts in Mexico.
Based on the Fincen analysis, the American fraud victims sent $ 28,912 on average and a median amount of $ 10,000 per transaction to alleged crooks since July 2024.
The FBI says that around 6,000 American victims said they had lost nearly $ 300 million between 2019 and 2023 in shared time fraud programs in Mexico. But officials said that this figure “probably underestimates total losses, because the FBI considers that the vast majority of victims do not report the scam due to embarrassment, among other reasons”.
