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- Pedro insunza Norieg and his son, allegedly the leaders of the Sinaloa cartel fraction, were accused in California under the laws of Narco-Terrorism.
- The fees follow a record fentanyl seizure in Sinaloa because analysts watch how the funds associated with the cartels moved through the stablecoins to Chinese suppliers.
- Blockchain Analytics Firms Chainly and TrM Laboratory identified millions in cryptomic networks with the purchase of fentanyl precursors and washing networks.
Pedro insunza Noriega and his son Pedro Inzunza Coronel, reportedly leaders of the Beltrán Leyva, or Blo, a cartel fraction, were charged with Narco terrorism and trading fees on Monday.
The accusation came partly because the investigators of blockchain watched how cartel drug gains empty the crypto.
Prosecutors in the southern district in California claim that both men allegedly helped lead one of the largest fentanyl operations in the world and trade tens of thousands of kilograms on Tuesday, Tuesday declaration.
Their indictment is followed by a raid from December 2024 in Sinaloa, which confiscated 1,500 kilograms of fentanyl, which is still the largest seizure of the drug.
While the Case of the Foreign Affairs focuses on smuggling and violence, financial analysts have spent the last two years watching how groups such as Blo have fentanyl profits through Stablecoins such as Bonds‘is USDT. Experts claim that traders use Wallets Move funds to Chinese brokers and chemical suppliers.
In the March report, Blockchain Analytics Company Chainlysis Watched $ 5.5 million in Stablecoin gears From cartel courier couriers in the US to Chinese manufacturers of fentanyl precursors.
The company described the flow as part of the growing “fentanyl economy on the chain” that combines sales in American cities crypto-Macilitated supply line abroad.
The intelligent company Trm Labs Blockchain also documented how Mexican cartels use Chinese brokers of money laundering to convert cash with drugs into stablecoins, which are then used to buy chemicals or settlement accounts.
The company revealed in January message that 97% of Chinese suppliers of predecessors who were examined in 26 cities received a crypto.
Many of the same retailers were associated with digital wallets marked with the US cash register and the Cartel -related activity.
“People have to stop talking about these things as threats and start talking about Chinese networks that make it all easier,” Ari Redbord, a former official of the Ministry of Finance and an American lawyer, said Unscramble Last month.
In previous cases, the authorities moved to sanction or confiscated wallets associated with these washing efforts.
In September 2023, OfAC designated addresses EthereumCry associated with a collaborator Blo Mario Jimenez Castro, who ordered the couriers to impose a fentanyl return to the crypt of wallets before redistributed to the leaders of the cartels in Mexico.
Another designation followed in October, when US officials linked 17 other directories with Chinese suppliers and identified the related flows of $ 3.7 million.
The accused does not deal with these digital transactions, but brings new legal tools to carry.
The accusations of alleged cartel leaders are called the designation of a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), which in January signed in the law of President Trump.
This designation makes federal crime to provide material support, including financial services, cartel members, and allows the US government to freeze related assets, including crypto wallets.
“This accusation is what justice looks like when the Ministry of Justice, together with partners in criminal proceedings, is brought against the Sinaloa cartels,” said US lawyer Adam Gordon, who also announced the creation of a specialized terrorism unit of Narco.
Edited Stacy Elliott.
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