US targets affiliates tied to Tren de Aragua money laundering network
The U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control on Dec. 3 sanctioned affiliates of Tren de Aragua, including Venezuelan entertainer Jimena Romina Araya Navarro, in an action targeting a money laundering support network effective that day.
WASHINGTON, December 3, 2025 — The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned key affiliates of Tren de Aragua, the designated Foreign Terrorist Organization also known as TdA, in a move targeting a money laundering network that supported the Venezuelan group. The action took effect Dec. 3.
Treasury said the designations included Jimena Romina Araya Navarro, a Venezuelan entertainer also known as “Rosita,” as part of a network of five people affiliated with the entertainment industry that provided material support to TdA. According to the department, others in that network laundered money for TdA leaders.
OFAC's SDN List update shows four individuals were added to the list under counterterrorism and transnational criminal organization authorities, each identified as linked to Tren de Aragua: Noe Manases Aponte Cordova, Araya Navarro, Asdrubal Rafael Escobar Cabrera and Richard Jose Espinal Quintero. The listings cite secondary sanctions risk under Section 1(b) of Executive Order 13224, as amended.
Treasury also said it was sanctioning five additional TdA affiliates and one entity in South America, though those names were not included in the supplied SDN List excerpt.
The department described Tren de Aragua as a Venezuelan-origin organization that has expanded across the Western Hemisphere and engages in activities including drug trafficking, migrant smuggling, human trafficking, extortion, sexual exploitation, money laundering and murder-for-hire.
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