The Treasury Secretary reinforced actions to prevent money laundering through the use of casinos by alleged groups of the organized crime.
It was reported that in conjunction with the Security Cabinet, in an investigation that has been going on for months, 13 casinos were identified con cash operations, international flows and use of digital platforms unsupervised.
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Treasury highlighted that due to its high financial riskwere listed as blocked legal entities to protect users and prevent these spaces from being used by organized crime.
“As a result, behaviors allegedly consistent with typologies
international money launderingin establishments with a presence in Jalisco, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, Sonora, Baja California, State of Mexico, Chiapas and Mexico City, in accordance with the patterns detected in the financial analysis.”
Operations with million-dollar movements abroad
It was specified that some of these establishments operated with million-dollar movements in cash, transfers to countries such as United States, Romania, Albania, Malta, Panama; as well as through digital platforms, which facilitated the dispersion of illicit resources, their concealment and their reintegration into the Mexican and international financial system.
Additionally, it was identified that the digital platforms They used people with economic profiles not in line with the amount of money received such as housewives, students, retirees, unemployed, who in exchange for a percentage transferred all of the funds to the true owners, legitimizing the income apparently obtained in games.
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“Derived from these findings, the UIF will present the corresponding complaints to the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (FGR) and will notify the Federal Prosecutor’s Office, in order to follow up on possible “crimes of operations with resources of illicit origin (money laundering), criminal association and tax crimes.”
These actions reaffirm the commitment to international cooperation to prevent the use of the financial system for illicit purposes, in collaboration with FinCEN and OFAC of the United States Department of the Treasuryand in compliance with the Recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to combat money laundering.