At least three organized crime groups are identified as possible participants in a scheme of Hydrocarbon theftactivity called Huachicol, for commercialization with companies in the United States, according to a report from that country.
The financial crime control network (FinCENfor its acronym in English) shared a document on May 1 in which it exposes the way of operating the criminal groups to perform hydrocarbon transactions in the area of the frontera.
“The cartels use complicit Mexican intermediaries in the oil and natural gas industry for smuggle and sell crude oil stolen from Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) […] to small American companies of oil and natural gas complicit that operate near the southwest border of the United States. ”
The document directly indicates to Sinaloa cartelthe Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel (CJNG) and al Gulf cartel As participants in these activities, although he also points out that there are other organizations involved.
It is because of the above that the alert was published with the objective that financial institutions are maintained alert on “suspicious” activities related to hydrocarbon smuggling. The report adds that these practices represent affectations of billions of dollars for Pemex.
It emphasizes that the smuggling of the substance has been detected in the southwest area of the US, for which they use erroneous labels as “used oil” or even supposedly dangerous materials.
In some operations they have been detected companies both Americans as Mexican involved in the commercialization of the substance.
The way in which the subjects involved in the theft of hydrocarbons achieve the materials through bribes to corrupt employees of Pemex or through the illegal drilling of legitimate ducts.
Once obtained, the product is taken to territory controlled by the criminal groups to later be transported to the border. Already in the US stolen oil is transferred to vacant lots operated by companies from that country to be delivered to importers and that between the American and world black market.
After the sale of the product the American importers receive the corresponding money and distribute las earnings to companies from both sides of the border.
The same day that the Finnn published the alert, the Department of the Treasury reported on the sanctions to people linked to the CJNG for its alleged relationship with Huachicol activities and fentanyl transfer.
