WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department yesterday said it imposed sanctions on 14 people and 25 companies in Colombia, Spain and the Netherlands that it said supported the financial network of former bosses of Colombia’s Cali cocaine cartel.
The Treasury said the individuals and firms were discovered to have had links to relatives of Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela and his brother, Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela, who are serving U.S. prison terms for drug trafficking and money laundering.
The action blacklists the individuals and companies as narcotics traffickers, prohibiting Americans from doing business with them and freezing any assets they may have under U.S. jurisdiction, the Treasury said. The Treasury said the most prominent of the newly sanctioned Colombians and Spaniards is Hernando Mejia Uribe, a Colombian national who it said collaborated to hide assets belonging to the Rodriguez Orejuela brothers.
The companies include property development firms in both Colombia and Spain, the Treasury said.
