The United States has identified one of the main fentanyl traffickers for CJNG: who is Abouzaid “El Bayeh”

Juan Manuel Abouzaid El Bayeh, alias “El Árabe” or “El Escorpión”, shareholder of One plus one and important leader of the Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel (CJNG), has been blacklisted by the United States Department of the Treasury.

For several years, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has followed in the footsteps of ‘Arabic‘, a Mexican citizen, about 47 years old.

The Foreign Assets Control Office (I DO IT) of the United States Department of the Treasury considered “Abouzaid El Bayeh” to be “major foreign drug dealer”For his role as high level facilitating drug shipments and money laundering for the CJNG, an organization responsible for trafficking – in a significant proportion – of fentanyl and other hard drugs in the United States.

“The Treasury’s action against Abouzaid El Bayeh is a demonstration of the continued commitment of the United States to dismantle the CJNG, by identifying the main links in the leadership structure.»Informed Andrea M. Gacki, director of the Office for the control of foreign assets.

The Bayeh has been accused of conspiring to distribute cocaine Yes methamphetamine in the United States. The prosecution alleges that their activities began around 2012.

In June 2020, the financial intelligence unit (UIF) froze the bank accounts of Abouzaid El Bayeh and his sister Yamile for their probable links with the Guadalajara cartel. Next month Juan Manuel asked to be protected against any arrest warrant and “possible extradition”, reported The day, since, according to legal defense, the injunction was reportedly issued by a federal judge based at the Federal Justice Center in Almoloya de Juárez, in the state of Mexico.

However, the first district court for the protection of criminal matters, in Zapopan, Jalisco, granted the provisional suspension to the case of Juan Manuel Abouzaid, according to media reports, in exchange for the deposit of a deposit of 50,000 pesos (2390 USD).

He is currently a fugitive from justice, and following his recent blacklisting of drug traffickers, The assets it may hold under US jurisdiction are frozen and financial transactions with US entities are prohibited.

Since the end of 2018, the DEA has asked the Ministry of Justice to negotiate with Mexico the extradition of various leaders of the CJNG, including Juan Manuel Abouzaid, this within the framework of international collaboration agreements.

Who is it Abouzaid El Bayeh

The “Scorpion”, the “Brother”, “Nene” or “the Arab”, is identified by the American authorities as one of the four capos belonging to the circle of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, alias “El Mencho”, leader of the CJNG for which the DEA offers a reward of 10 million USD in exchange for information leading to its capture.

The three other capos closest to the ‘Señor de los Gallos’ are Erick Valence Salazar alias “85”, co-founder arrested and released – for noting irregularities in his detention – in 2017; Ulises Yovani Mora, key figure in the infrastructure of the “Los Cuinis” group, a parallel structure allied to the CJNG under the orders of the González Valencia family; Alfredo Galindo Salazar, alias “El Tucán”, indicted in the District of Columbia; Yes Abouzaid El Bayeh.

Depending on the case 1: 17-cr-00094 Abouzaid El Bayeh conspired to distribute five kilograms of cocaine with the intention of being illegally imported into the United States. The DEA warned that he was currently a fugitive and was in hiding in Mexico.

A charge filed in federal court in Washington DC indicated that since 2013, “El Árabe” reported directly to the main leaders of the criminal organization. “Between 2013 and 2017 or so, Abouzaid reported directly to some of the senior CJNG lieutenants.The DEA said.

The Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel, resulting from a split from the Sinaloa cartel, operates in 25 of the country’s 32 states, although its greatest presence is in Baja California, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Veracruz and Jalisco.

In its National Drug Threat Assessment 2020, the DEA mentioned that the CJNG is one of the fastest growing organizations, and with the Sinaloa cartel, they are the most dominant in Mexico.

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