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 News from Around the Americas | December 2007 
US: Mexican Woman Drug 'Kingpin'
 Associated Press
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| | Blanca Margarita Cazares Salazar used 19 companies - including a toy factory, real state agency and restaurant - throughout Mexico and California to launder money for the cartel, the US Treasury Department said in a news release. |
The US Treasury Department has designated a Mexican woman and 22 of her relatives and business associates as "drug kingpins," a move that bans Americans from doing business with them or their companies.
The department alleged on Wednesday that Blanca Margarita Cazares Salazar is a key money launderer for her brother, Victor Emilio Cazares Salazar, and Ismael Zambada Garcia, both identified as leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, one of Mexico's most powerful drug trafficking organizations.
Blanca Margarita Cazares Salazar used 19 companies - including a toy factory, real state agency and restaurant - throughout Mexico and California to launder money for the cartel, the department said in a news release.
It named Cazares, her spouse, three children and 18 others as "specially designated narcotics traffickers." Their naming by the Office of Foreign Assets Control triggers the freezing of any of their assets in U.S. jurisdiction and prohibits U.S. companies and individuals from doing business with them or their companies. |
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