A Dubai-based trafficker used U.S. bank accounts, a cigarette front company and an off-the-books money remitter in Tennessee to launder hundreds of millions of dollars in drug proceeds, U.S. officials claimed. On Wednesday, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, or OFAC, blacklisted Indian national Jasmeet Hakimzada alongside his father, Harmohan, and his mother, Eljeet Kaur, pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act for allegedly smuggling heroin and opiates to the United States, Australia, New Zealand and United Kingdom. OFAC said the family used banks in the United States, Brazil, India, Panama, the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere...
The U.S. Treasury Department announced that the Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Indian national Jasmeet Hakimzada as a Significant Foreign Narcotics Trafficker pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act.
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