The top official of the Venezuelan gang Tren of Aragua added to the list of the ten most sought after in the FBI

Giovanni Vicente Mosquera Serrano, a senior senior official of the Venezuelan criminal gang Tren in Aragua was added to the list The ten most sought -after research on the Federal Office of the Ten.

Known as “El Viejo”, the old man, Mosquera Serrano is the first member of the gang on the FBI fugitives list, according to the agency.

The FBI offers a reward of 3 million dollars for information leading to the arrest and / or the conviction of Mosquera Serrano, 37, which faces federal accusations which include the conspiracy to provide and provide material support for a foreign terrorist organization, as well as the conspiracy and distribution of cocaine in Colombia intended for distribution in the United States, the agency announced on Tuesday.

Tren de Aragua, also known as ADD, sends gang members to the United States to engage in drug, human and weapons traffic, as well as violent crimes, said the FBI.

ADD was appointed as a foreign terrorist organization after President Donald Trump was signed by President Donald Trump. He now operates in the United States.

Investigators believe that Mosquera Serrano could be in Venezuela or Colombia, the agency said.

Tren of Aragua has not only terrorized Venezuela for years, but also countries like Bolivia, Colombia, Chile and Peru, CNN reported.

In Colombia, Tren de Aragua and a guerrilla group known as the National Liberation Army “exploit sex trafficking networks in the border city of Villa Del Rosario” and Norte de Santander, according to an American state department 2023, the trafficking of people relate to Colombia.

Criminal groups exploit Venezuelan migrants and the Colombians displaced in sexual traffic, taking advantage of economic vulnerabilities and subjecting them to the “servitude of debt”, according to the report. The region’s police reported that the organization had the victim of thousands of people in extortion, drugs and human trafficking, kidnapping and murder.

Insight Crime, a reflection group dedicated to organized crime, said in October that the “reputation of Tren of Aragua seems to have increased more quickly than its real presence in the United States”.

“In addition, there is no evidence, so far, cells in the United States cooperating with each other or with other criminal groups,” said Insight Crime.

Tren de Aragua adopted its name between 2013 and 2015, but its operations predate what, according to a report by Transparency Venezuela, an anti-corruption non-profit organization.

“It has its origin in workers’ unions who have worked on the construction of a railway project that would connect the country center and which has never been completed” in the states of Aragua and Carabobo, according to the report.

The leaders of the gang operated from the notorious of Tocorón prison, which they controlled, according to the report. The Venezuelan authorities say they have dismantled the management of Tren of Aragua and released from Tocorón prison, one of the largest in the country, the control of its members.