The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday imposed sweeping sanctions on a sprawling Mexico-based crime ring accused of smuggling thousands of illegal aliens into the United States and laundering millions in illicit profits.
The Bhardwaj Human Smuggling Organization, based in Cancun, was designated a transnational criminal organization under an executive order targeting global trafficking networks.
According to the Treasury Department, the group’s leader, Vikrant Bhardwaj, and his wife, Indu Rani, are dual Indian-Mexican nationals who ran a sophisticated network moving illegal migrants from Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Asia through Mexico and across the U.S. border.
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