The Justice Department filed its first-ever criminal charges against Chinese chemical manufacturing companies alleged to have illegally trafficked substances into the US for fentanyl production.
The U.S. intends to prosecute four China-based manufacturers and eight individuals for knowingly producing, marketing, selling, and supplying the chemicals used to concoct fentanyl, Reuters reported. The synthetic drug is partly responsible for the opioid epidemic in America.
The U.S. brought the charges against Chinese companies and nationals allegedly connected to the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel. The charges come two months after the Justice Department indicted the same cartel’s leaders. “I also promised that we would never stop working to hold accountable those who bear responsibility for it. That includes not only going after the leaders of the cartels, their drug and gun traffickers, their money launderers, security forces, and clandestine lab operators. It also includes stopping the Chinese chemical companies that are supplying the cartels with the building blocks they need to manufacture deadly fentanyl.
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