Overview
- Mexico’s government said an interagency analysis identified 13 physical and digital gambling establishments with irregular operations across several states, including flows to Romania, Switzerland and the United States.
- Security chief Omar García Harfuch reported coordination with the Financial Intelligence Unit and the Finance Ministry and said names were withheld to protect ongoing investigations.
- In Argentina, federal police arrested fugitives Joaquín Otero Cao and Guillermo Jorge Hugo Pinarello at the Puerto Iguazú border and opened bank safety‑deposit boxes in Mar del Plata, seizing large sums and about 16 high‑end vehicles.
- Investigators in Mar del Plata say the ring ran unauthorized online casinos and laundered proceeds through ‘cuentas mulas’ and “pitufeo,” with prior raids tying suspects to contraband and crypto conversions under case file 16997/2023.
- García Harfuch said the Uruapan mayor’s killing is being pursued under organized‑crime lines as the FGR weighs taking the case; separately, Peru’s president José Jerí declined to direct police actions after fugitive Vladimir Cerrón gave a live interview, and a judge postponed Javier Duarte’s conditional‑release hearing to November 19.