From Fuel Theft to Customs: Family Link Revealed to Operator Sanctioned by the US

“Sol Prendido” for Borderland Beat 

An investigation by Mexicans Against Corruption (MCCI) revealed that Analee de Jesús Juraidini Silva, sister of fuel-theft kingpin Oscar Guillermo Juraidini—who was recently sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury—continues to work undisturbed as a key official at the Matamoros Customs Office.

The criminal network operated by declaring U.S. fuel as lubricant to evade taxes for the benefit of the CJNG, using the same customs post previously occupied by another official who is now imprisoned at El Altiplano.

Years ago it was an open secret. Today it’s proven that the Jalisco New Generation Cartel is infiltrated in the customs of Matamoros, Tamaulipas. Proof of this, they assure, is the case of the sister of Oscar Guillermo Juraidini Silva. Sanctioned by the US Department of the Treasury as one of the most important financial operators of organized crime. 

His sister, whose name is Analee de Jesús Juraidini Silva, works at none other than the Matamoros customs office through which her brother Oscar Juraidini trafficked millions of liters of stolen fuel in recent years for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

According to Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI) since 2019, Analee de Jesús Juraidini, has held various key positions in the Matamoros customs office. One of them being the director of procedures and legal affairs. 

The same position held by Carlos Eugenio Benítez Orta until he was arrested in Texas on charges of facilitating the smuggling of illegal fuel across that border. He is currently imprisoned in Mexico at the El Altiplano prison.

This character, Benítez Orta, held the same position until 2022, which was later left to Juraidini's sister, right? So we have this link between the former customs official who was arrested in the United States in early June of this year. 

Juarini's sister, who came to occupy the position that he left at the time he was arrested, Carlos Eugenio Benítez Orta was in charge of supervising the customs supervisors at the Matamoros customs office. 

According to official documents, Analee de Jesús Jurdini continues to work undisturbed from the Matamoros customs office, the national epicenter of fuel smuggling in our country. 

Despite the fact that on June 30th, the US Department of the Treasury included his brother and several shipping companies that he managed on the list of the Office of Foreign Assets Control for being part of a fiscal huachicol network of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

In this same statement, the Treasury Department affirmed that the drug cartels in Mexico use the dirty money from fiscal huachicol to finance political campaigns throughout the country and to buy the wills of corrupt and colluding politicians. Just as well, to ensure that they, the cartels, can obtain drug routes or obtain positions of their associates in different branches of the federal public administration.

Sources: Azteca Noticias, Borderland Beat Archives