OFAC Sanctions Costa Ricans, Entities for Drug Trafficking
The Office of Foreign Assets Control this week sanctioned four people in Costa Rica, along with two Costa Rican entities, for their ties to narcotics tracking and money laundering.
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OFAC said Celso Manuel Gamboa Sanchez and Edwin Danney Lopez Vega recently were arrested on drug trafficking charges in response to an extradition request from the U.S., adding that Gamboa had helped ship tens of millions of dollars’ worth of cocaine from Colombia through Costa Rica and into the U.S. and Europe. The agency said Gamboa worked with other drug traffickers to move cocaine, including Lopez, Alejandro Antonio James Wilson and Alejandro Arias Monge.
The U.S. also sanctioned two of Gamboa's companies. Bufete Celso Gamboa & Asociados is a “doing business as” name and "a sole proprietorship owned by Gamboa and headquartered in San Jose," while Limon Black Star FC is a Limon-based soccer club that Gamboa uses to launder money, OFAC said.