The musician was charged with connections to the Flores drug trafficking networks and drug lord Raul Flores Hernandez in 2017. In accordance with the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated Alvarez as a substantial overseas trafficker (Kingpin Act).
Together with him, 21 other people—including Rafael Marquez, a soccer player—were found guilty. It is the greatest Kingpin Act case against the Mexican drug cartel network to date, according to sources. The singer acknowledged that he had nothing to do with this. Yet in La Camella, now a bar in Guadalajara, Alvarez once met Raul.
Alvarez further asserted that when he first met Raul, who was a concert producer, he was unaware that Raul was a drug dealer. Additionally, he said that the Kingpin had no need of him and was not his business partner.
