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墨西哥当局周四表示，他们在美墨边境东北部塔毛利帕斯州的一次针对燃油走私团伙的突袭行动中，解救了孟加拉虎、山魈、鬣狗甚至还有一头骆驼。
在一处牧场查获的135只动物还包括狮子、水牛、苏卡达陆龟、蜘蛛猴、美洲豹、一头美洲野牛和一只绿金刚鹦鹉。
其中35只动物，包括绿金刚鹦鹉和苏卡达陆龟，被列为濒危物种。
墨西哥当局经常从富裕毒贩拥有的地产中解救外来动物。众所周知，一些墨西哥贩毒集团会饲养外来猫科动物作为权力象征，偶尔还会用它们来处决敌人。根据2023年美国的一份起诉书，锡纳罗亚贩毒集团一个分支的部分受害者“被活生生或死后喂给了老虎”。
不过在此次行动中，军方是在针对燃油走私者的行动中发现了这些动物。
墨西哥当局周四表示，他们在美墨边境东北部塔毛利帕斯州的一次针对燃油走私团伙的突袭行动中，解救了130多只外来动物。 墨西哥政府
从美国向墨西哥走私汽油和柴油并免税转售，是包括贩毒集团在内的有组织犯罪团伙的一大暴利来源。
在此次针对五处窝点的最新突袭行动中，军方查获了18000加仑柴油、燃油罐、泵具、枪支和工具。
一人被逮捕。
墨西哥当局在2025年开展了打击燃油走私的行动，当时多名高级海军军官和官员被牵连进这一非法贸易。
当时在塔毛利帕斯州共查获约100亿升黑市燃油。
总检察长办公室周四正式指控费尔南多·法里亚斯犯有燃油走私罪。这名高级官员上周刚被阿根廷驱逐出境。
塔毛利帕斯州前州长埃内斯托·鲁福也最近因燃油盗窃指控被捕。
燃油走私问题日益严峻
据美国财政部数据，燃油盗窃——在墨西哥通常被称为“瓦奇科尔”（huachicol）——已成为墨西哥贩毒集团仅次于毒品贩运的第二大盈利渠道。
美国官员指控，一些贩毒集团成员通过贿赂内部人员、铺设管道、抽取炼油厂燃油、劫持油罐车以及恐吓员工，从墨西哥国家石油公司（Pemex）窃取燃油和原油。
被盗燃油随后在墨西哥、美国和中美洲销售，而原油则通过串通的经纪公司走私到美国——这些经纪公司经常将原油伪装成“废油”以逃避税收和环境审查，美国财政部调查发现。
原油进入美国后，会被转运到西南边境的无良进口商手中，以远低于市场的价格在美国和全球市场销售，所得收益会悄悄回流给贩毒集团。
美国当局甚至指控哈利斯科州新一代贩毒集团运营自己的加油站。
美国一直在加大打击力度。今年6月，美国财政部对两名墨西哥男子和九家涉及运输、金融服务和房地产的公司实施了制裁，这些机构被指与贩毒集团关联的燃油盗窃团伙有关。
去年12月，财政部对一个暴力的墨西哥燃油盗窃贩毒集团及其被监禁的头目实施了制裁，该头目绰号“大锤”。
Tigers, jaguars, bison among 135 exotic and endangered animals found in raid on fuel smugglers near U.S. border
2026-08-28T06:48:00-0400 / CBS News
Mexican authorities said Thursday that they had rescued Bengal tigers, mandrills, hyenas and even a camel during raids on a fuel smuggling ring in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, on the U.S. border.
The 135 animals found at a ranch also included lions, buffalo, sulcata tortoises, spider monkeys, jaguars, an American bison and a green macaw.
Thirty-five of the animals, including the green macaw and sulcata tortoise, are classified as endangered species.
Mexican authorities regularly rescue exotic animals from properties owned by wealthy drug traffickers. Some Mexican drug cartels are known to house exotic cats as symbols of power and, occasionally, to dispose of their enemies. According to a 2023 U.S. indictment, some victims of a Sinaloa cartel faction were “fed dead or alive to tigers.”
On this occasion, however, the military found them during an operation targeting fuel smugglers.
Mexican authorities said Thursday that they had rescued over 130 exotic animals during raids on a fuel smuggling ring in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, on the U.S. border. Mexico Government
Smuggling gasoline and diesel from the United States into Mexico and reselling it tax-free is a huge money-maker for organized crime gangs, including drug cartels.
During these latest raids on five properties, the military seized 18,000 gallons of diesel, fuel tanks, pumps, firearms, and tools.
One person was arrested.
Mexican authorities cracked down on fuel smuggling in 2025, when high-ranking navy officers and officials were implicated in the illegal trade.
Some 10 billion liters of black market fuel were seized at that time in Tamaulipas.
The attorney general’s office on Thursday formally charged Fernando Farias, a high-ranking officer who was expelled last week from Argentina, with fuel smuggling.
A former governor of Tamaulipas, Ernesto Ruffo, was also recently arrested on charges of fuel theft.
Fuel smuggling a growing problem
Fuel theft — more commonly known as huachicol in Mexico — has risen to the second most profitable revenue stream for Mexican cartels behind drug trafficking, according to the U.S. Treasury.
U.S. officials allege that some cartel members steal fuel and crude oil from Pemex by bribing insiders, tapping pipelines, siphoning refineries, hijacking tanker trucks, and intimidating employees.
The stolen fuel is then sold across Mexico, the United States and Central America, while crude oil is smuggled north via complicit brokers — frequently disguised as “waste oil” to evade taxes and environmental scrutiny, the U.S. Treasury discovered.
Once inside the United States, the oil is then funneled to unscrupulous importers along the southwest border, sold at deep discounts on U.S. and global markets with proceeds quietly funneled back to the cartels.
U.S. authorities have even accused the Jalisco New Generation cartel of operating its own service stations.
The United States has been cracking down. In June, the U.S. Treasury imposed sanctions on two Mexican men and nine companies involved in transportation, financial services and real estate, accused of being tied to a cartel-linked fuel theft ring.
In December, the Treasury Department imposed sanctions on a violent Mexican fuel-theft cartel and its imprisoned leader, nicknamed “The Sledgehammer.”
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