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- Status
- Wanted
- Agency
- FBI
- Notice
- FBI Wanted
- Issued
- 2025
- Checked
Carlos Andres Rivera Varela
Carlos Andres Rivera Varela is wanted by the FBI, which published this notice in 2025. He is wanted in connection with charges that include murder, terrorism, drug trafficking and organised crime. The United States Department of State’s Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Carlos Andres Rivera Varela.
He is described as 1.78 m tall, weighing about 84 kg, with brown eyes and brown hair. Born on 19 June 1986 in Colombia, he would now be 40.
- Murder or homicide
- Terrorism
- Drug trafficking
- Organised crime
- Fraud or forgery
- Money laundering
- Weapons offences
Charges, as published
- Money Laundering Conspiracy
- Providing Material Support, Attempting to Provide Material Support, and Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization
Reward
The United States Department of State’s Transnational Organized Crime Rewards Program is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Carlos Andres Rivera Varela.
Case details, as published by FBI
Carlos Andres Rivera Varela is an alleged high-ranking leader of Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), a major transnational cartel and designated foreign terrorist organization based in Mexico. Rivera Varela and others allegedly directed an international complex fraud scheme targeting American timeshare owners in Mexico. Over the past decade, this operation allegedly laundered hundreds of millions in alternative revenue to finance CJNG’s drug and weapons trade. Rivera Varela is also an alleged leader of elite sicario hitmen units responsible for extreme violence and high-profile assassinations with access to military-grade weaponry. On October 28, 2025, a federal arrest warrant was issued for Rivera Varela in the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, New York, after he was charged with Money Laundering Conspiracy and Providing Material Support, Attempting to Provide Material Support, and Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to a Foreign Terrorist Organization.
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