Treasury agencies are suspected of being a human trafficking network organized by Mexico, India and the UAE
Washington – The US Department of the Treasury has imposed increased sanctions on members of a suspected Mexican human-trafficking network that it says traffickers are using techniques to enhance human trafficking as a direct threat to national security.
The Office of the Importer of Foreign Goods (AFAC) referred to the organization of Bhardwaj Human Trafficking organization, which is suspected to include the ringleader vikrant phrant Bhardwaj plus three associates and 16 affiliated organizations on Thursday. The destruction will prevent any US assets or interests tied to the flowering group and US persons from conducting financial transactions with the suspected criminal organization.
According to Treasury officials, Bhardwaj Hso is building a complex “skiing pipeline” that includes its collection of yachts and marinas, as well as former hostels in Mexico, India and the United Arab Emirates.
Thousands of migrants from Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Asia – including some from Mexico, are re-entering the north of the US border, desecrating the road”
Authorities suspect the group’s services have cost migrants thousands of dollars once, and the group has offered active support to people employed by the notorious Sinaloa Cartel.
Investigators identified a Web of Corporate Fronts allegedly controlled or used by a group called travel companies in Mexico and retail stores in India and the UAE, as well as a store in Mexico to hide income streams.
The Treasury raised three other friends: Jose German Valadez Florez Flores and Jorge Alejandro Mendoza Villegas are accused of facilitating the smuggling of officials by bribing officials at airports and leading in the shwardwaj work and leading in the operation of the planes.
“Today’s action, in cooperation with our law enforcement partners, disrupts the ability of the network to smuggle illegal aliens into the United States,” under terrorism and terrorism finance and terrorism finance director John K. Hurley said in a statement to CBS News. “The Trump administration will continue to target and decriminalize human trafficking organizations that value profit over human life.”
In recent years, the American administration has increased the use of organizational tools – initially conceived with a focus on terrorism or narcotic networks – to deal with human trafficking and human trafficking organizations.
In June 2023, Biden-Era Treasury officials referred to the Hernandez Salas smuggling network for making thousands of migrants and money laundering. Later that year, Offer admitted to smuggling the Malas Mañas network, which links human trafficking operations to narcotic smuggling and cartel business.
The Treasury’s latest move matches Bhardwaj’s HSso on pervasive national security threats, such as drug or terrorist syncretism.
The enforcement of BOLSSTE, the network of financial institutions of the reserve (FICCEN) has recently issued a framework encouraging the US banks to observe the patterns of money laundering and the return of money tied to Mexican criminal organizations.
Still, Mexican officials are publicly challenging the evidence under the Trump administration, even questioning past ties to Mexican banks for alleged cartel money laundering.
In June 2025, the US Treasury custodian targeted the banks Cibanco and Intercanco, as well as the Prector Casa deAsa de Bolsa, accusing them of moving money on behalf of Cartels and the Fentanyl Supply Chain. The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, expressed frustration at the time and publicly asked the US Treasury to send evidence, if they have it, so that we can go with them, so that we can go with them, so that we can go with them, so that we can go with them, so that we can go with them, so that we can go with them.
In this case, Treasury officials tell CBS News Bhardwaj Hso’s latest effort was planned through Mexico
