OFAC Sanctions People, Companies in Illegal Drug Trade Network

The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned a network of people and companies involved in illegal methamphetamine and fentanyl trade, including six Mexican nationals who are members of the Sinaloa Cartel. OFAC also designated six Mexico-based entities with ties to the illegal drug trade.

The sanctions target brothers Ludim Zamudio Lerma and Luis Alfonso Zamudio Lerma, who lead the drug trade network, as well as Ludim Zamudio Lerma’s son, Ludim Zamudio Ibarra. Other sanctioned cartel members are Luis Gerardo Flores Madrid and lab operators Ernesto Machado Torres and Jose Santana Arredondo Beltran.

The Zamudio family owns now-sanctioned Mexican companies Aceros y Refacciones del Humaya, S.A. de C.V.; Farmacia Ludim; Inmobiliaria del Rio Humaya, S.A. de C.V.; Operadora Zait, S.A. de C.V; Operadora del Humaya, S.A. de C.V.; and Operadora Parque Alamedas, S. de R.L. de C.V.