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Building is being built in the Chepevera neighborhood by a firm sanctioned for money laundering in the US
About a week ago, the US Treasury Department sanctioned 27 individuals and companies linked to the Hysa family, accused of creating a complex transnational money laundering network in the service of the Sinaloa Cartel.
The joint operation, in which the Government of Mexico and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) participated, put an illegal structure on different continents at the center of the crackdown.
The Hysa family, of Albanian origin, is headed by Luftar Hysa. In addition to him, other family members who participate with him in their companies, and who are also mentioned in the charges, are Arben Hysa, Ramiz Hysa, Fatos Hysa and Fabjon Hysa.
After the episodes of violence and crisis in Albania in 1997, Hysa moved to South Africa in 1998, where some of his brothers were already living. In that country, he first entered the gambling sector, becoming part of a small Albanian community.
Later, in 2001, he immigrated to Peru with associates to open a betting business, staying there until 2004. That year, he decided to move to Mexico after identifying expansion opportunities in the gambling industry. Since then, he has been creating and operating businesses in the country. Hysa noted that he has been a Mexican citizen since 2016 and a Canadian resident, while his family lives in Canada. At that time, he lived in Cancun.
Hysa appeared as a public figure in Albania, and also had a meeting with Prime Minister Edi Rama. Hysa gave his version regarding this meeting with Rama, while the Prime Minister gave another version.
"There (in Vlora) is an investment by a family from Vlora. His father is a well-known person in Vlora because he was one of the green activists against Italian Petrolifera. He became famous for this and his family has invested in one of the most beautiful hotels, little by little Marina Bay. Then those who I know because I am a deputy of Vlora told me we want to meet you because he is a cousin, or an acquaintance, I don't know, who lives in Mexico and wants to help us, give us a hand to manage the casino. I said okay. Come on. They came. I met them. They simply told me what... information on the possibility of such a thing and I told them we have a simple framework to stimulate 5-star hotels, which did not exist in Albania, we made a tax-free package for 10 years, 6% VAT, zero fees for construction permits," Rama explained. Then, at the journalist's insistence, the prime minister added: "He (Hysa) came with them for this. I remember this. I saw him once in my life. Then I saw that they opened it. That's it. Is he an investor, or an administrator or... I don't know," Rama said in one of his recent interviews for Italian media.
Following the sanctions, it appears that the hunt for the Hysa family's hidden assets has begun. One of the investigative media outlets has raised suspicions that one of the assets is an unnamed building belonging to Hysa Forwarders, a company sanctioned for alleged ties to the Sinaloa Cartel and the Albanian mafia.
Where is the building located?
An unnamed 4-story building in the residential area of the Chepevera neighborhood in Monterrey, among various residences, offices, health clinics and law firms, has attracted attention, as it is suspected of belonging to the company Hysa Forwarders SA de CV, one of the companies sanctioned by the United States government for money laundering and for its links to the Sinaloa Cartel and the Albanian mafia.
Several websites available online indicate that the company owned by Hysa is located, or was located, on Daniel Zambrano Street, between Avenue Simón Bolívar and Pablo A. González, better known as Fleteros.
However, the number 516 on Daniel Zambrano Street appears in the advanced search engine on the website whatjobs.com, LinkedIn and on his Facebook account.
Multimedios conducted a tour to verify the address; however, there is no visible logo or name of the building, nor of the companies that would operate or that were established on the property located between Simón Bolívar and Pablo González Garza streets.
When you try to access the Hysa Forwarders website, it is already disabled or has been canceled.
"Apparently, this domain is not yet associated with any website," writes the portal, which was registered on the wix.com platform.
When you try to contact the phone number listed on both the online registration and the Facebook registration, it is simply no longer available.
On November 13, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) joined the Government of Mexico to dismantle the Hysa organized crime group and multiple gambling establishments in Mexico involved in cartel-related money laundering and a wide range of other criminal activities in Mexico and Europe.
Among the 22 companies listed is Hysa Forwarders and 11 others registered or created in Nuevo León.
Hysa Forwarders was founded on June 10, 2021, identified with number 35583, with the activity of retailing clothing, footwear and leather goods in specialized stores, with commercial folio number 35583, owned by Luftar and Arben, Hysa.
The building in Chepevera remains one of the most enigmatic points of the investigation, with closed doors and no active sign of the company involved. /Pamphlet/
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