The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced new sanctions targeting eight Mexican nationals and 12 Mexican companies allegedly linked to Los Chapitos, a faction of the Sinaloa Cartel battling for control of the drug trafficking organization in northern Mexico.
Authorities claimed that the companies supplied fentanyl precursor chemicals to Los Chapitos. One of the companies named in the Oct. 6 announcement is Sumilab, which had also been sanctioned by OFAC in 2023.
