Treasury Sanctions Financial Network of Foreign Terrorist Organization, Tren de Aragua, After Theft of Millions from U.S. Banks

WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated 10 targets involved in a Tren de Aragua (TdA) fraud scheme that has become a key source of revenue for the organization. TdA is a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) responsible for violent and exploitative criminal activity across the Western Hemisphere—including drug trafficking, human trafficking, extortion, and murder-for-hire—making the disruption of its financial networks essential to protecting Americans. This operation is orchestrated by one of the FBI’s ten most-wanted fugitives, Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre (aka “Prometheus”). In addition to this network, today OFAC also designated Juan Gabriel Rivas Nunez (aka “Juancho”), a high ranking TdA leader directing operations in multiple South American countries.“President Trump’s administration will not allow terrorist organizations like Tren de Aragua to exploit the U.S.