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Federal prosecutors charged 14 allegedly high-ranking members of the violent transnational gang MS-13 with conspiracy and terrorism in what authorities described because the Justice Division’s most sweeping indictment focusing on the group’s management, reports the Wall Street Journal. The indictment, unsealed in federal court docket in Brooklyn, prices members of the Ranfla Nacional, which authorities stated operated as MS-13’s “Board of Administrators,” guiding its world felony exercise for nearly 20 years. Eleven defendants are in custody in El Salvador, whereas the U.S. seeks their extradition. Three stay at giant.
The indictment prices the lads with conspiracy to offer and conceal materials assist and sources to terrorists; conspiracy to commit transnational acts of terrorism; conspiracy to finance terrorism; and narco-terrorism conspiracy. Combating MS-13, which has established “cliques” all through the U.S., has been a precedence of the Justice Division below President Donald Trump. MS-13 was established within the Eighties in southern California by Central American immigrants, a lot of whom had fled civil wars in El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, the indictment stated. MS-13 has been blamed for the disaster of violent crime in Latin America. The indictment in Brooklyn accuses the Ranfla Nacional of directing MS-13’s U.S. operations, main the gang’s enlargement into Mexico and exercising management over the El Salvador authorities via violence and intimidation.
