The Justice Department told the U.S. Congress that the Sinaloa cartel, headed by Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, uses US “business-fronts” to launder their profits in America.

Jennifer Shasky, chief of the Section of Forfeiture and Money Laundering Criminal Division of the Justice Department, said that “U.S. law enforcement agencies believe that the Sinaloa cartel, one of the largest drug trafficking organizations in Mexico, using companies in the United States- to launder drug proceeds. “