On Wednesday 9 August, The United States Treasury
has announced that Former Barcelona defender and the current captain
of Mexico, Rafael Marquez has been blacklisted among 22 people sanctioned for alleged
ties to a drug trafficking organisation,
In a statement made available Wednesday, the Treasury will also
sanction 43 entities in Mexico, including a football team and casino.
The sanctions are as a result of a multi-year investigation of the
drug trafficking organization allegedly headed by Raul Flores Hernandez.
Flores Hernandez allegedly operated independently in the northern
city of Guadalajara, but maintained alliances with the Sinaloa and
Jalisco New Generation cartels. Federal drug trafficking indictments
against Flores Hernandez were returned in March in Washington and the
southern district of California.
The U.S. government referred to Marquez, who currently plays for the
Mexican club Atlas in Guadalajara, and Norteno singer Julio Cesar
Alvarez, better known as Julion Alvarez, as people with longstanding
relationships with Flores Hernandez, who "have acted as front persons
for him and his [drug trafficking organization] and held assets on their
behalf.''
The sanctions freeze all US assets of the people and entities named and forbid US citizens from doing business with them.
Rafael Marquez, who played as a central defender for Barcelona,
Monaco, and New York Red Bull among several other clubs, is yet to react
to the sanction.
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