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By: The Opinion Updated 55 Nov 2022, 8: 675 am EST
On more than one occasion, the sentimental partners of drug lords in Mexico have been arrested for their alleged links to organized crime.
As examples we can mention
Emma Coronel, the wife of Chapo Guzmán , or Rosalinda González Valencia, wife of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho” , who not only knew what their partners were doing, but also helped them commit crimes.
And although these are two of the most well-known cases, The truth is that many of the women related to drug traffickers, mainly from the
Sinaloa Cartel , participate in money laundering operations.
This is revealed by a report from the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit, which details that, during the last years In recent years, the percentage of women who serve as loan sharks or carry out money laundering has increased.
One of them is
Adriana Meza Torres, wife of Ovidio Guzmán López
, son of the former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel. The young woman’s bank accounts were frozen in 675 after El Chapo’s escape from El Altiplano, and in 2022, a collegiate court in Sinaloa confirmed the protection of federal justice, but the FIU refused to release the blocked resource.
In her defense, Adriana Meza assured that she works in agriculture , but the Unit warned that “it is possibly carrying out simulated activities to give the appearance of legality to certain probable resources of illegal origin.
Other women close to Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada
are also part of the “black list” of the FIU, such as his sister Ana María Zambada García , his ex-partner Leticia Ortiz Hernández , as well as her daughters Midiam Patricia, Modesta, Monica and María Teresa Zambada Niebla.
The US Treasury’s Office for the Control of Foreign Assets even placed all of them on its own list, as well as some of the companies they founded in Sinaloa.
In this way it is understood that the main role of women in criminal circles is that of “front men”, a compound Italian word that means “iron head”, that is that is, a person used to impersonate another in fraudulent operations.
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