The former World Cup player Rafael Márquez is in a real mess after being accused in the United States of being a frontman for Mexican drug trafficker Raúl Flores Hernández. If this is confirmed, the athlete could end up in prison for many years.
Rafael Márquez is accused of being a frontman for drug trafficking by the US Treasury Department, and even the León Stadium appears on that list. The measure taken has been to punish the renowned sportsman, born in Atlas, along with 22 other people for alleged ties to drug trafficking.
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The agency indicated in a statement that it also sanctioned 43 entities in Mexico, including a soccer club and a casino. The Treasury stated that the sanctions against Rafael Márquez arise after an investigation that lasted several years into the organization allegedly headed by Raúl Flores Hernández.
The relationship between Rafael Márquez and the drug trafficker is very long and has been going on for approximately 20 years, during which the Mexican defender has acted as an important frontman for Flores Hernández, according to a high-ranking US official who requested anonymity.
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The sanctions freeze any property that Rafael Márquez and the other affected individuals may have in the United States and prohibit Americans from engaging in financial transactions with them, but they do not result in the seizure of their properties or subject them to criminal charges, explained the official.
Flores Hernández, a drug lord linked to Rafael Márquez, has been active for more than 30 or 35 years leading a cartel bearing his name, Flores, and has amassed a fortune of tens or hundreds of millions of dollars that he invested in a large network of companies, many of them in the city of Guadalajara, added the source.
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