The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned a Mexico-based transnational criminal organization allegedly responsible for smuggling thousands of migrants into the United States, the enforcement agency announced on July 18.
The Tijuana-based Abdul Karim Conteh Human Smuggling Organization (Karim HSO) is led by Sierra Leonean national Abdul Karim Conteh (Karim), 42, according to the OFAC.