Critical Insights
- Over 3,000 actors, spanning 45 jurisdictions have been sanctioned under the US Treasury’s Counter Narcotics Trafficking and Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) authorities. These designated actors include real estate, agribusiness, and electronics firms.
- Some actors sanctioned under these programs are members of Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs), described by the US government as “complex organizations with highly defined command-and-control structures that produce, transport, and/or distribute large quantities of one or more illicit drugs.”
- Other actors sanctioned under this program are members of Money Laundering Organizations (MLOs), which are groups that consist “of two or more individuals acting as an autonomous, structured group that specializes in providing services or advice to launder money for criminals or” other organized group.