Restaurants involved in money laundering are legitimate businesses with real profits. All five businesses were found to have laundered money in order to provide financial support to Mexico’s Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generation, an international drug trafficking ring.

Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) deemed five Mexican businesses 'Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers,' froze each business' assets and prohibited any U.S. In fact, more than 500 people 'checked in' to Mizu via various social media platforms, and many gave it high marks on online review sites. Mizu hosted anniversaries, birthdays, and Oscar-viewing parties - and guests made sure to document each boisterous celebration on Facebook. Patrons dined on deep-fried sushi rolls, and washed the quasi-fusion food down with icy glasses of sangria. It wasn’t a traditional Mexican restaurant by any means. No one would have described Mizu Sushi Lounge in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico as nondescript.

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