The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control said Wednesday that it has targeted nearly two dozen people and 19 businesses, including a restaurant and toy store, allegedly used as front companies by the Sinaloa organization.
Two Mexican exchange houses transferred money through U.S.-based banks that was used to buy aircraft for transporting more than $1 billion worth of cocaine, the Mexican government said this week.
Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix one of seven brothers who allegedly ran the Tijuana-based Arellano Felix cartel admitted that he sold cocaine to an undercover police officer in 1980.
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