A man who laundered ~$2.5 million for the Sinaloa Cartel was sentenced this week to five years in federal prison. Cristian Amaya Nava, 37, of Calexico, is one of a dozen people indicted for allegedly laundering around $16.5 million for the cartel.
SAN DIEGO – A man who laundered nearly $2.5 million on behalf of the Sinaloa Cartel and took part in threatening two people and their families in order to recoup stolen drug money was sentenced this week to five years in federal prison.
Amaya Nava is the first defendant to be sentenced in connection with the money laundering organization. Amaya Nava took the man and one of the man’s family members to multiple banks in San Diego and Imperial counties in order to withdraw money to repay the organization. During this endeavor, Amaya Nava received phone calls from another defendant who told the victims “that their families have been located and they better not do anything stupid, and that people were watching them and were prepared to act,” the plea agreement states.
Prosecutors say the organization at the heart of the scheme took cash delivered by drug traffickers across the United States and laundered the funds through shell companies before transferring the money to Mexican bank accounts.
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