Mr. Kaloyanides represents a client and his business in Mexico before the United States Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control. This client, as many, has been designated under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act as a Tier II Specially Designated National who is prohibited from conducting any business transaction with any United States citizen or resident, and whose assets in the United States are frozen. The designation stems from a joint investigation by the United States Drug Enforcement Agency and SIEDO, the Mexican counterpart of the DEA, who have linked the client to the infamous Amezcua Drug Trafficking Crime Family in Mexico.
Mr. Kaloyanides and his investigation team, after months of carefully analyzing the transactions of the client and his business, gathered the evidence to demonstrate that government’s assumptions regarding the client’s connections to the drug trafficking organization and business dealings are baseless. Mr. Kaloyanides’s petition for removal of the client from the FNKD Act SDN list is currently pending before the Department of the Treasury.
