Overview
- Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit said it temporarily froze the accounts of Governor Rubén Rocha Moya, his children and senior aides on Monday as a preventive step.
- President Claudia Sheinbaum said banks act automatically on U.S. arrest warrants through correspondent links and that Mexico needs admissible evidence to prosecute.
- U.S. prosecutors in New York unsealed charges on April 29 accusing Rocha and nine others of aiding the Sinaloa Cartel’s Los Chapitos through bribes, protection and political support.
- Two former Sinaloa officials are now in U.S. custody after an arrest in Arizona and a voluntary surrender, and they are reported to be in plea talks with prosecutors.
- Sheinbaum said the U.S. homeland security chief and the White House drug policy director will visit for security meetings, pointing to rising pressure and closer coordination.