The Treasury Department on May 1 announced U.S. sanctions on three Mexican nationals and two Mexico-based transport companies that investigators say allegedly fed the fentanyl pipeline of Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) and financed the cartel through large-scale fuel theft.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control blocked all U.S. property and interests tied to Cesar Morfin Morfin, known as “Primito”; his brothers Alvaro Noe Morfin Morfin and Remigio Morfin Morfin; along with trucking firms SLA. Servicios Logisticos Ambientales, S.A. de C.V. and Grupo Jala Logistica, S.A. de C.V.