Mexican citizens Eduardo Figueroa Gómez and Ernesto Fernández Gómez were located on Tuesday by the United States Department of the Treasury as “specially designated nationals” for their ties to the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
The first time he was assigned to the sanctions list of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC, for its acronym in English), Figueroa Gómez appeared with his father Benjamín Figueroa Vásquez (then already detained by the Mexican authorities), to who were identified as Specially Designated Drug Traffickers, in accordance with the Foreign Drug Kingpin Designation Act, also known as the Kingpin Act.
They were also linked then “for their important role in international drug trafficking, as well as 16 of their companies in Mexico and Panama.”
The sanctions list published today includes a group of companies owned by the two mentioned, located in Jalisco, Mexico and another in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, including Citadel Real Estate Developments, SA de CV, Fortia Tourism Developments, SA de CV, Unión Abarrotero de Jalisco, SC de RL de CV, El Palomar Car Wash, SA de CV, among others.
The sanctions issued by OFAC include the freezing of bank accounts, confiscation of property and assets that are in the United States or under US jurisdiction and the prohibition of commercial or financial transactions with US citizens or entities of this country.
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