The American sanctions of Mexican banks, alleging links with the money laundering of the cartel | Crime News

The Mexican Finance Ministry said that he had not received evidence to support complaints against Cibanco, Intercam and Vector Banks.

The United States has imposed sanctions on three Mexican banks, alleging that it had been used to whiten money for drugs.

On Wednesday, the US Treasury Department equaled the banks – CIBANCO, INTERCAM BANCO and VECTOR CASA de BOLSA – with cross -border trafficking in fatal synthetic drug.

He accused them of playing “a long -standing and vital role in whitening millions of dollars on behalf of Mexico’s cartels and facilitating payments for the purchase of precursor chemicals necessary to produce fentanyl”.

Sanctions are part of a broader pressure campaign of the American president Donald Trump against Latin American gangs, criminal networks and drug traffickers.

This campaign included the designation of several groups as “foreign terrorist organizations” and the use Pressure prices The government of Mexico to increase the application of irregular traffic across the border.

In a statement, the Treasury Department said that banks were the first to be targeted under new laws – the Fentanyl sanctions law and the Fentanyl law – adopted to extend its ability to target money laundering linked to opioid traffic.

The sanctions would block transfers between targeted Mexican banks and American banks, although it is not immediately clear how far the limits would be.

In a statement, the secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent accused the banks of “allowing the poisoning of countless Americans by moving money in the name of the cartels, making it vital inner in the fetanyl supply chain”.

But the Secretariat of Mexico in Finance and the Public Credit responded to the sanctions saying that it had not yet received any conclusive evidence justifying them.

“We want to be clear: if we have conclusive information proving illegal activities by these three financial institutions, we will act to the fullest measure,” said the Ministry of Finance.

“However, to date, we have no information in this regard.”

Cibanco did not immediately respond to the allegations. The American Treasury Department accused him of being linked to money laundering by the Beltran-Leyva cartel, the cartel of the new generation of Jalisco (CJNG) and the Gulf cartel.

Interam, which is also accused of having links with the CJNG cartel, has not responded either.

Meanwhile, the brokerage company Vector, which was linked to money laundering by the Sinaloa cartel and the Gulf Cartel, said that the American claims linking its operations to drug traffickers were false.

“Vector categorically rejects any accusation that compromises its institutional integrity,” said the company in a statement, adding that it would cooperate to clarify the situation.