USA threw a “strike force” to combat trafficking fentanyl in that country with the resources and intelligence of the Treasury Department and which will be directed by its office Terrorism and Financial Intelligence and Criminal Investigation of the Internal Revenue Service.
For this, personnel, resources and experience of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)the Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA) and the Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes Office (TFFC).
In a statement, the US agency detailed that its objectives are to attack the illegal supply chain with sanctions; collaborate with Mexico and Canada for combat fentanyl trafficking; and establish communication with the private sector to share Financial intelligencewarning signs, trends and typologies.
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It will also reinforce the use of Financial intelligence in order to map the financial networks of the transnational criminal organizations and fight the money laundering.
The Treasury Secretary Janet Yellenstated that the fight against fentanyl trafficking is an “absolute priority.”
“The Treasury Department Fentanyl Strike Force will allow us to leverage the Department’s unmatched experience in combating financial crimes to combat this deadly epidemic. “The Treasury will use all the tools at its disposal to disrupt the ability of drug traffickers to sell this poison in our country,” he noted.
For his part, the Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Brian Nelson will seek that this force of stroke “Respond quickly to the threats most recent.”
While the head of Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, James Leedescribed fentanyl as “one of the deadliest narcotics that plague” that country.
The launch of this anti-fentanyl strategy It happens a few days before the Secretary of the Treasury pays a visit to Mexicowhich is scheduled for this December 7.
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In his morning conference from the National Palace, the President of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Worker announced that the visit of the American official will take place after the meeting she had with the Secretary of the Treasury, Rogelio Ramírez De la Olast month during Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC)held in San Francisco, United States.
“We are very happy that she has decided to visit us. This comes from a meeting she had with the secretary of Tax authorities, with Rogelio Ramírez De la O; Then he comes and they go to work on tax issues. And I am going to receive it in the morning,” she explained.