As part of its fight against the opioid crisis that has killed thousands of Americans, the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued new sanctions against one of Mexico's biggest drug cartels, targeting a key structure of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG).
The OFAC announced sanctions on nine Mexican nationals involved in fentanyl, heroin and other deadly drug trafficking and money laundering. The agency said that the suspects played a prominent role in the early stages of the U.S. opioid crisis, a leading factor driving the U.S.'s modern fentanyl crisis.
