Treasury Issues New Sanctions Targeting Sinaloa Cartel Fentanyl Network

The Treasury Department said the designated individuals and entities helped launder proceeds from fentanyl and other narcotics.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) holds a news conference about his proposed legislation to designate Mexican drug cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, at the U.S. Capitol on March 8, 2023. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

The Trump administration has issued new sanctions against individuals and entities connected to the Sinaloa Cartel and its fentanyl trafficking.

According to a May 20 press release by the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, more than a dozen names linked to the cartel have been sanctioned.