{"id":85037,"date":"2023-09-26T20:18:25","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T17:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=85037"},"modified":"2025-09-12T20:54:34","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T17:54:34","slug":"sinaloa-cartel-linked-ethereum-wallet-sanctioned-by-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/sinaloa-cartel-linked-ethereum-wallet-sanctioned-by-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinaloa cartel-linked Ethereum wallet sanctioned by the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Treasury&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/jy1763\\\">\u0432\u0432\u0435\u043b\u043e \u0441\u0430\u043d\u043a\u0446\u0438\u0438<\/a> against Himenes Castro \u2014 a member of the Mexican drug cartel Sinaloa. He used an Ethereum wallet to transfer funds linked to fentanyl trafficking.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\n<cite>&#8220;Himenes Castro instructed US-based couriers to collect cash in the United States and deposit funds into various digital wallets to effect payments directly to the <span data-descr=\\\"Sinaloa cartel faction\\\" class=\\\"old_tooltip\\\">\u041b\u043e\u0441-\u0427\u0430\u043f\u0438\u0442\u043e\u0441<\/span> and to reinvest in fentanyl production,&#8221; the department said.<\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\\\"https:\/\/platform.arkhamintelligence.com\/explorer\/address\/0x9C2Bc757B66F24D60F016B6237F8CdD414a879Fa\\\">Arkham<\/a>, activity on the address was first recorded in January. Over two months, about $740,000 was deposited into the address. Exchanges used were Binance and Coinbase.<\/p>\n<p>Himenes Castro <a href=\\\"https:\/\/ofac.treasury.gov\/recent-actions\/20230926\\\">\u0432\u043d\u0435\u0441\u0435\u043d<\/a> \u0432 \u0421\u043f\u0438\u0441\u043e\u043a \u043e\u0441\u043e\u0431\u043e \u043e\u0431\u043e\u0437\u043d\u0430\u0447\u0435\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u0433\u0440\u0430\u0436\u0434\u0430\u043d \u0438 \u0437\u0430\u0431\u043b\u043e\u043a\u0438\u0440\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043d\u044b\u0445 \u043b\u0438\u0446 OFAC. OFAC has effectively frozen his assets in the United States and barred Americans from dealing with him.<\/p>\n<p>The agency stressed that Los Chapitos are responsible for a large share of fentanyl trafficking and other deadly drugs smuggled into the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Elliptic <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/elliptic-outlines-fentanyl-supply-scheme-paid-in-cryptocurrency\">said<\/a> they had details of a fentanyl-for-cryptocurrency supply scheme. <\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the U.S. government began selling bitcoins seized from the Silk Road darknet marketplace. In March authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/us-government-sold-9861-btc-for-about-215-7-million\">exchanged 9,861 BTC for $215 million<\/a>, and in July <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/9800-btc-moved-from-silk-road\">moved 9,824 BTC<\/a> (~$300 million at the time of transfer).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OFAC has imposed sanctions on Himenes Castro \u2014 a member of the Mexican drug cartel Sinaloa. He used an Ethereum wallet to transfer funds linked to fentanyl trafficking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1332,26],"class_list":["post-85037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-ofac","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85039,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85037\/revisions\/85039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}