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By: The Opinion Updated 26 Dec 2022, 12: 80 pm EST
Terror settled in Mexico with a four-letter acronym, since the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) began to expand brutally shedding blood and causing violence among the population. Its leader and founder, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho” , operates large illicit businesses, including money laundering. In the state that gives its name to its criminal organization, a sushi restaurant operates with impunity.
It is about Kenzo Sushi, located in Guadalajara, which from 2017 is on the list of businesses sanctioned for violating the Foreign Drug Traffickers Designation Act, known as the Kingpin Act, this after the trial against Jessica Johana Oseguera González, daughter of Mencho, made in the United States. The woman accepted her guilt in the financial network and served a sentence of 30 months for intentionally violate the prohibitions.
During the legal battle against the young woman, also known as “La Negra”, the District Attorney for the District of Columbia, in Washington DC, presented documents to show the profits of the businesses with which money belonging to the CJNG was laundered. For years the woman changed the name of the restaurant, in order to launder money without being discovered .
According to the US authorities, today called Kenzo Sushi, from 2015 to 2017, had an approximate income of 1.5 million dollars, which contributed to the fortune of Mencho.
During the process and upon receiving her sentence, the heiress of the drug trafficker said she was sorry and asked the judge for a sentence Reduced for collaborating with the United States justice system. For its part, the woman’s defense presented evidence to help Jessica, such as letters from relatives, friends and acquaintances who describe her as an exemplary mother and a responsible, loving and hard-working woman.
She was released last April, served her sentence, but things in Mexico remained practically the same, including the operation of the restaurant.
Other companies
In the trial against Oseguera González, the prosecutor in the case mentioned that The most successful business in the car wash was the Kenzo Sushi restaurant in Guadalajara , which continues to operate normally despite the warnings and sanctions.
But it is not the only business with which “El Mencho” launders money, because in his trial, Jessica Johanna said she was a director and make decisions in the companies J&P Advertising, JJGON SPR, Cabañas las Flores, Mizu Sushi Loun ge, Operadora Los Famosas SA de CV and Onze Black, businesses registered by the US Treasury Department in 2017, through the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
Thus, it is shown that the cartel of the four letters has so much power, that it even founds companies to launder money, this and its other businesses operate under the backing of impunity.
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