US authorities have sentenced a Mexican lawyer and high-level money launderer for the Sinaloa Cartel to 15 years and 8 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to transfer drug proceeds worth millions of dollars out of the US.
Starting in 2013, US authorities intercepted communications between the convict and other high-level Sinaloa Cartel members discussing the transfer of drug proceeds. Upon requests from cartel leadership, the convict arranged for the collection of drug proceeds in cities across the US and worked with Colombia-based co-conspirators for the subsequent transfer of the proceeds to Mexico and elsewhere.
The authorities used the information from the interception to seize over $4 million in drug proceeds before they could leave the US. They also found that the convict was coordinating the transfer of millions more for the cartel. Mexican authorities arrested the convict in 2016. Subsequently, he was extradited to the US in 2021. Earlier this year, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder monetary instruments.
Source: US Department of Justice
