Overview

• Agents of the Fiscalía General de la República detained Alfaro Rosas on July 18 in Mexico City under an arrest warrant issued in October 2021.
• He faces charges of organized crime and money laundering for allegedly moving over 6.1 billion pesos between 2013 and 2018 through 16 shell companies.
• Investigators say Alfaro Rosas served as a bank signatory and representative for Transportes Puebla de las Américas, one of the front firms used to disguise cartel proceeds.
• He is being held at the Altiplano maximum-security prison in Estado de México while a federal judge reviews his legal status.
• Meanwhile, the FGR has appealed Manuel Rodolfo Trillo Hernández’s seven-and-a-half-year sentence, arguing it is too lenient given his financing of El Chapo’s 2015 prison escape tunnel.