Italian police have dismantled an underground bank used by drug traffickers, moving hundreds of millions of euros over three years. The network, run by a Chinese national from Prato, facilitated anonymous financial flows for organized crime, including Albanian and Italian mafia groups, and also operated an illegal immigration network.
Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations, the United States Southern Command said
US prosecutors have indicted Sinaloa Governor Rubén Rocha Moya, a member of President Claudia Sheinbaum's MORENA party, accusing him of conspiring with the Sinaloa Cartel to import massive quantities of narcotics into the United States. The indictment, released in New York on Wednesday, also charges nine other current and former Mexican officials including a senator, mayor and high-ranking policeman. Rocha is accused of protecting the Los Chapitos faction of the cartel. The Mexican government says the US request lacks sufficient evidence.
U.S. military forces conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing three men the Pentagon says were trafficking drugs. No U.S. personnel were harmed. The strike is part of an aggressive anti-cartel campaign that has killed at least 178 people since early September.
