Mexico Freezes Sinaloa Governor’s Accounts and 9 Officials’ Assets Over US Drug Charges
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Updated · Bloomberg · May 15
Mexico Freezes Sinaloa Governor’s Accounts and 9 Officials’ Assets Over US Drug Charges
9 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · May 15
Mexican financial authorities ordered banks to freeze the accounts of Sinaloa Governor Ruben Rocha Moya and nine current and former officials targeted by US drug-trafficking charges.
The order also covered Rocha’s 3 sons—who were not charged in the US—and companies linked to them, according to people familiar with the confidential discussions.
Banks and other financial institutions were instructed to block the accounts as Mexico moved against figures accused by US authorities of aiding drug traffickers.
The action widens the fallout from the US case beyond criminal charges, extending pressure into Mexico’s financial system and Sinaloa’s political establishment.
Can US-Mexico anti-drug efforts survive after prosecutors charged a sitting Mexican governor with trafficking?
With a governor indicted for cartel ties, is this the start of a US crackdown on narco-politics?