US ties to Mexican soccer player Rafa Marquez with drug trafficking

Last update 9 August, 2017 by Alberto Llopis

The news has surprised everyone, not only in Mexico. The Treasury Department has included US soccer player Rafael Marquez, one of the icons of Mexican soccer worldwide and former Barcelona player among others, on a list of individuals who act as figureheads drug. The US Treasury has four properties in Jalisco, one in Guanajuato and one in Mexico City.

Americans Rafa Marquez they linked to alleged drug kingpin Raul Flores Hernández. Marquez inclusion on this list involves the immediate suspension of any visa American footballer, prohibiting their entry into the North American country and the prohibition of any US company doing business with him and the freezing of all accounts and properties that the player holds in US.