Juan Carlos G. Partida
Correspondent
Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday March 4, 2023, p. 8
Guadalajara, Jal., The United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has years clocking businesses of all kinds linked to the Jalisco cartel New generation (CJNG) to sanction them, as happened just on March 2 with eight companies based in Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara that, according to reports, defraud citizens of that country with time-share lodging businesses.
In 2017 too signedFor example, the successful Asian food restaurant Kenzo Sushi, although it continues to operate and is one of the favorites in one of the most exclusive areas of Zapopan, where neighborhoods such as Andares and Puerta de Hierro converge, on Avenida Real Acueducto.
OFAC, in 2015, did the same with the Hotelito Desconocido, a boutique hotel lost on a semi-virgin beach in Costalegre, Jalisco, with lodgings worth thousands of dollars and where, according to the then Attorney General of the Republic, commanders of the CJNG.
Billing companies, suppliers, restaurants and even tequila companies are part of the money laundering network that, according to the US government, the criminal group operates or has operated in partnership with The Cuinis.
OFAC has indicated that Jessica Johanna Oseguera González, known as the black and daughter of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the mencholeader of CJNGhas been key to the diversification and laundering of part of the capital produced by drug trafficking, specifically in restaurant businesses, sometimes mere facades, since they were businesses that actually did not exist.
In its lists, the US office has identified firms allegedly linked to the criminal group such as J&P Advertising, Mizu Sushi Lounge, Operadora Las Famosas, JJGON, Las Flores Cabanas and the Onze Black tequila company, all registered in the Public Registry of Property and Commerce of the state of Jalisco.
This information was corroborated after the black was arrested in Washington on charges of illicit operations
at the request of the CJNGcharge for which in 2021 he pleaded guilty and spent 25 months in jail.
In the new lists that OFAC released last Thursday, in addition to the eight accused of committing timeshare fraud against US citizens in Puerto Vallarta and Guadalajara, businesses linked to The Cuinisanother criminal group associated with the CJNGsuch as Agrícola Boreal, Agrícola Tavo, Organic Agricultural Development, Sayula Green Agricultural Development, Tourist Advisors, Step Latinamédica and Administrative Status.
