Mexico City, Oct. 14, (dpa/GNA) – Mexican authorities have frozen 1,352 bank accounts containing 126 million dollars deposited by 14 criminal gangs, financial intelligence chief Santiago Nieto said on Tuesday.
The money came from activities such as drug sales, extortion and kidnappings by gangs including La Union Tepito, La Anti Union and the Tlahuac Cartel, according to Mexico City police chief Omar Garcia Harfuch.
More than 400 people were also arrested in the effort, known as Operation Zocalo, Garcia Harfuch said.
He described the operation as a blow to “the most important criminal organizations” in the capital and other “extremely violent groups”.
Garcia Harfuch himself survived an attack attributed to the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel, in which three people were killed in June.
GNA