Chinese money launderers, in alliance with fentanyl makers, have formed an underground nexus with Mexican drug cartels. Together, they move billions of dollars every year by trafficking this popular and powerful opioid. What is fentanyl? Fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opioid that is similar to morphine, but it is 50 to 100 times more potent. ...
According to federal health authorities, fentanyl has been responsible for more than 37,000 deaths in the United States just in 2019. The U.S. has been dealing with an opioid crisis for some time now, and it has steadily reached new heights during the global pandemic. China is the epicenter of this crisis, being the largest ...
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) recently announced sanctions on Zhang Taotao, a Chinese distributor of fentanyl, who is known to be a significant global drug trafficker. Taotao is being accused of shipping large quantities of fentanyl to the U.S., a drug cheaper than heroin that can kill people even in ...
Around 2013, narcotics made in China started hitting American streets. Soon, they became so popular that the overdose deaths kept piling up year after year. Chinese-manufactured fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, is estimated to have killed about 79,000 people just within the last three years. This is greater than all the deaths of American combatants in ...
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