Cartel Boss Sentenced Over Car Wash Money Laundering
Rosalinda “La Jefa” González Valencia was sentenced to five years in prison for laundering money through a car wash she owns in Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico. Prosecutors argued that Valencia was laundering money for Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the dangerous criminal organization allegedly run by Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera-Cervantes.
Car washes are definitely a sub-par place to clean your vehicle, but they’re seemingly just as awful at obscuring illicit financial dealings. González Valencia’s lawyer admitted that she had hidden transactions made at her establishment in 2015 and 2016 but the court didn’t definitively connect her to organized crime. Vice News reported:
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