Control of Businesses, Threats, and Overpricing of up to 144%: La Familia Michoacana’s Extortion Network in State of Mexico

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The Mexican State Prosecutor's Office released more details on how La Familia Michoacana controlled different businesses in municipalities such as Malinalco and Valle de Bravo.After the ‘Liberation’ operation, in which criminals were arrested in 14 Mexican municipalities, it was reported that they decided the prices of different products, in addition to their distribution, and forced traders to buy in certain stores and handle high rates with th…

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A pre-trial judge justified against five detainees in 'Operation Liberation' against extortion in Edomex.

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The eight people captured during the Operativo Liberación, deployed in 14 municipalities in the south of the State of Mexico and Quintana Roo, will remain in justified pretrial detention, while a judge decides if they are linked to the process. Citizen complaints were key to the positive results of the #OperaciónLiberación.From the government of @Edomex we will continue to strengthen the National Strategy against Extortion to combat a crime that…

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The Michoacana Family received a blow in its economy with the arrest of alleged extortioners who intimidated merchants from 14 municipalities of the State of Mexico (Edomex), whom they used to enrich illegally, controlling prices and sales of business . After the insurance of properties dedicated to various turns, the products stored in these were given to residents of the Edomex, the Attorney General’s Office reported after the execution of Ope…

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Gonzalo “N”, Jorge “N”, Antonio “N”, Alicia “N” and José Fernando “N”, learned in the framework of “Operation Liberation”, were placed in pretrial detention justified by the judicial authority in imputation hearings.This operation investigates the coercion exercised by criminal groups or individuals through economic units by setting quotas or abusive prices and forcing them to buy, sell or acquire goods, supplies or services, in pre-established …