OFAC Sanctions Guatemala Human Smuggling Organization
The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned the Lopez Human Smuggling Organization, a Guatemala-based transnational criminal organization. OFAC said the group helps move migrants through Mexico and into the U.S., and has relied on several U.S. banks and…
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money service businesses to “receive payment from the family members of those being smuggled and to pay other members of the organization.” Along with the sanctions, DOJ charged 19 members of the group for their involvement in human smuggling.