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On November 16, 2021, the U.S. Attorney in San Diego partially unsealed an indictment in a U.S. District Court, charging 29 alleged members of an international money laundering organization linked to the Sinaloa Cartel and Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Mexico.[1] On November 10, 2021, Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr. of Tamaulipas, Mexico, pleaded guilty to drug and money laundering charges, admitting that he was the leader of a trafficking organization that transported ton-quantities of cocaine from South America to Mexico and into the U.S.[2]
[1] U.S. Attorney Office for Southern District of California Alleged Money Launderers for Mexican Cartels Indicted, Press Rel. CAS21-1116-Valenzuela, Nov. 16, 2021. U.S. v. Alfredo Adolfo Ibarra-Vida, U.S. Dist. Ct., S.D. Cal., Case No. 21CR2546-GPC, Superseding Indictment, Nov. 18, 2021.
[2] U.S. Attorney Office for Southern District of California, Angel Dominguez Ramirez Jr. Admits to Leading Vast Drug-Smuggling, Money Laundering Empire, Press Rel. No. CAS21-1110-Dominguez Ramirez, Jr., Nov. 10, 2021.