The United States imposed sanctions against the family of the "most wanted drug lord in the world"

The American authorities introduced sanctions on Tuesday against the two sons of Joaquin Gusman Loer, nicknamed “Shortyshka”, which is the head of the Mexican “Cartel de Sinaloa” and the most wanted drug lord in the world, the Univision channel reports.

The US Department of Finance has blocked all the assets of the sons of the "shorty" Ivan and Ovidii, and also forbade American citizens and companies to carry out any commercial activities with them.

"Like the Mexico government, we are determined to end the criminal activity of the organization of Husman," the US Treasury said in a statement. The children of the drug lord are suspected of involvement in the illegal supply of drugs that Cartel de Sinaloa carries out in the United States. They are included in the lists of drug dealers in the United States, RIA Novosti clarifies.

This is far from the first blow to the criminal network of Husman Loer, inflicted in recent years. Recently, the Colombia police confiscated at once 52 real estate objects in three cities of the country belonging to the "shorty". The total cost of real estate confiscated in Columbia exceeds $ 10 million.

Guzman Loer is headed by Cartel de Sinaloa, which, along with Los Setas, is considered one of the largest in Mexico. At one time, for the capture of the "shorty" US announced a reward of $ 5 million. According to the rating of billionaires of Forbes magazine, this drug lord is included in the list of the richest people in the world and almost alone controls the entire US cocaine market. The annual income of Loer from the illegal distribution of drugs in the United States is estimated at $ 323 million.

In 1993, he was arrested and sentenced to 20 years in prison. After the Mexican authorities decided to give it to the United States, he began to prepare an escape from a maximum security prison. Loer bribed several guards and on January 19, 2001 escaped, hiding inside the laundry van. Almost 80 people were involved in his escape plan. Since then, his location is unknown, and in the fall of last year, President Mexico Felipe Calderon said that Loer could live in the United States. The Mexican police arrested almost all members of his family.

The US authorities will put all his strength so that the most powerful Mexican drug Baron Hoacan Gusman Loer, nicknamed Korotyshka, repeated the fate of the leader of Al-Qaeda group, Osama Ben Laden. Terrorist No. 1 in the world was discovered and killed in Pakistan as a result of a special operation of the American army.

At the end of February, the Minister of Internal Security of the United States, Junet Napolitano, announced his intention at all costs at all costs. She believes that sooner or later the fugitive boss of the drug mafia will be discovered and neutralized.

“It took us 10 years to catch Ben Laden. You know how this happened, and the same thing will happen to the gunsman,” Napolitano said at a press conference in Mexico City.