Wife & Daughter of Ecuador Gang Boss “Fito” Arrested in Colombia — Lead $25 Million Laundering Scheme
COLOMBIA — Colombian authorities arrested Inda Mariela Peñarrieta Tuárez and her daughter, Michelle Jamileth Macías Peñarrieta — the wife and daughter of jailed Ecuadorian gang leader José Adolfo Macías Villamar, alias “Fito” — on Interpol warrants tied to a $25 million money-laundering scheme allegedly built on shell companies.
Prosecutors say Peñarrieta accumulated $1.3 million in unexplained income over five years, while her daughter received $435,900 despite claiming it came from a perfume-sales business.
Both have now been extradited to Ecuador, marking one of the most significant financial blows yet to the network Fito once led from behind bars.
Inside Colombia’s War on Narco-Terror: De la Espriella’s Offensive & What Is Happening On The Ground?
COLOMBIA — President Abelardo De la Espriella’s offensive against Colombia’s armed groups produced more than 30 arrests in a single day this week, spanning FARC dissidents, ELN fighters, and criminal networks across six departments, alongside a military strike that killed a senior dissident commander in Valle del Cauca.
Authorities also seized over a ton of cocaine, dismantled a large-scale fuel-theft operation, and extradited narco-terrorism suspect Geovany Andrés Rojas, alias “Araña,” to face charges in the United States.
The intensifying campaign fulfills the hardline security platform that carried De la Espriella to office in a razor-thin election decided largely by voters’ anxiety over Colombia’s worsening violence.
U.S. Treasury Sanctions 46 Sinaloa Cartel Targets, Eyes Baja California Corruption Network
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Trump administration officials sanction 21 individuals and 25 entities tied to the Los Mayos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel led by fugitive Ismael Zambada Sicairos, known as “Mayito Flaco,” alleging his organization’s corruption reaches into Baja California’s political establishment.
The U.S. Treasury names the ex-husband of Governor Marina del Pilar Ávila, a former Mexicali police chief accused of handing municipal officers to the cartel, and operatives accused of hiring hitmen to kill rivals on U.S. soil in Southern California.
The designations mark one of the clearest U.S. statements yet that cartel corruption has penetrated the inner circle of a sitting Mexican state government.
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