How a sushi restaurant in “El Mencho” made the CJNG earn millions

The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) It has established itself as one of the most powerful criminal organizations that have operated in Mexico throughout its history, however, and like any other criminal group, to carry out its activities outside the framework of the law. they have used other type of business that for a certain time have worked for them to stay out of the radar of the Mexican and US authorities.

However, and over the years, the undeniable rise and power that the cartel with the four letters, headed by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, gradually acquired, led the United States Department of Justice to target Jessica Johanna Oseguera Gonzálezdaughter of the also called Lord of the Roosters.

the black how is the daughter of the mencho was identified by US authorities as the one in charge of venturing into real and phantom companies, whose business is to provide money laundering services to the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG).

Thus, among the businesses run by the daughter of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the restaurant Kenzo Sushi, which located in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco and with a twist of Asian food was consolidated as the most successful car wash business of the cartel of the four letters.

According to reports from US security agencies, the companies headed by Jessica Oseguera Gónzalez had characteristics in common move millions of pesos, financial activities without any type of logic and were legally founded and registered in the Public Registry of Property and Commerce of the state of JaliscoHowever, they were pointed out by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) in 2015 for being part of the criminal network of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).

Despite this, various investigations indicated that the restaurant Kenzo Sushi Lounge was still running at least until 2021 in the Jalisco capital where it offered take-out services in minimum price ranges between 200 and 300 pesos.

After being identified as the person responsible for operating said businesses linked to the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), the black she was arrested in Washington and pleaded guilty to the charges brought against her.

According to media information Jalisco Unionfrom 2015 to 2018 the sushi restaurant that laundered financial resources of the powerful cartel of the four letters earned an approximate income of 1.5 million dollars in the period from 2015 to 2018.

Throughout the trial, the defense attorneys for the daughter of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes denied said figure and justified that the Department of Justice miscalculated the income of the establishmentsince he added the balance of bank accounts, monthly tax reports and accounting books, which allegedly inflated the final amount.

Nevertheless, Jessica Oseguera was accused of changing the Mizu Sushi restaurant for Kenzo’s and, to achieve this, he allocated a large sum in order to locate it in its new address in a commercial plaza in Guadalajara where it continues to operate to date.

On February 13, 2020, an arrest warrant was issued against Jessica Johanna Oseguera for her participation in five business entities identified by OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) for support and remain under the control of the criminal organization his father operates.

The final terms of a guilty plea were agreed between the woman’s lawyers and the US government on March 8, 2021.

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