US Treasury targets Mexico-based Human Smuggling Organisation and its leaders, sanctioning them for trafficking thousands of migrants and running interconnected drug and ML networks

The designation targets the Bhardwaj Human Smuggling Organization, its principal, three associates and sixteen affiliated companies for orchestrating large-scale migrant smuggling operations into the United States alongside related bribery, drug trafficking and money-laundering activity. Treasury highlights the organisation’s exploitation of vulnerable migrants and warns that financial institutions…