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Sinaloa Cartel — OFAC Ethereum Address Designations

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Summary

The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated multiple Ethereum wallet addresses linked to the Sinaloa Cartel's fentanyl trafficking and cryptocurrency money laundering operations. The most recent action, on May 20, 2026, added six Ethereum addresses and 11 individuals to the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list, marking the eighth Sinaloa Cartel designation linked to cryptocurrency since September 2023. All designated addresses are subject to strict-liability blocking obligations for U.S. persons and entities.

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    Timeline(6 events)

    26 September 2023

    OFAC designates nine Sinaloa Cartel-linked individuals including Mario Alberto Jimenez Castro and adds the first cartel-linked Ethereum address (0x9C2Bc757B66F24D60F016B6237F8CdD414a879Fa) to the SDN list. The wallet had allegedly received approximately $740,000 in deposits to Binance over two months.

    CoinDesk; U.S. Department of the Treasury

    January 2024

    U.S. DEA offers a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest of Jesus Gonzalez Penuelas, a Sinaloa Cartel drug kingpin later designated in the May 2026 OFAC action.

    U.S. Department of the Treasury

    April 2024

    A federal grand jury in the District of Colorado returns an indictment against Rodrigo Alarcon Palomares on three counts of laundering drug proceeds through cryptocurrency.

    U.S. Department of Justice, District of Colorado

    6 February 2025

    U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio designates the Cartel de Sinaloa as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) and Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT), expanding available enforcement authorities.

    Federal Register; U.S. Department of State

    20 February 2025

    FTO and SDGT designation of Cartel de Sinaloa published in the Federal Register and takes effect.

    Federal Register

    20 May 2026

    OFAC designates 11 individuals and two entities across two Sinaloa Cartel-linked networks and adds six Ethereum addresses to the SDN list. Five addresses attributed to Armando de Jesus Ojeda Aviles; one to Liliana Orozco Romero. Action authorized under E.O. 14059 and E.O. 13224. This is the eighth Sinaloa Cartel designation linked to cryptocurrency since September 2023.

    U.S. Department of the Treasury
    Provenance & Audit Trail
    Anchored on SolanaVerify on-chain13 Wayback Archives

    Decision Log

    This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (3 events). 13 of 13 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.

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    model: claude-sonnet-4-6

    generated: 6/15/2026, 12:40:15 PM

    last updated: 8/8/2026, 12:37:19 AM

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