As Michoacán trembled under an iron-fisted raid, the temporary command center in the capital, Morelia, saw the audit team's pen finally track the tangled web of funds and customs documents to target a "key objective" in Sakapu Town (Zacapu).
The "Hernandez Family" and their "New Continent Foreign Trade Company"!
On the surface, this company was engaged in daily goods and appliance import-export between Mexico City and Sakapu, with seemingly flawless accounts.
Yet, under the microscope of the audit office professionals, deliberately blurred product categories, declared values drastically inconsistent with transport costs, and frequent, large abnormal monetary flows all pointed to the company's true business—smuggling.
Weapons, ammunition, controlled chemical precursors, and even "small parcels" discreetly shipped for certain "special clients" flowed silently into Michoacán through their channels.
