U.S. Prices El Chapo Sons, Chinese language Businessmen With Fentanyl Trafficking

(Reuters) – America has charged leaders of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel with working a fentanyl trafficking operation fueled by Chinese language chemical and pharmaceutical firms, U.S. Lawyer Common Merrick Garland stated on Friday.

Three sons of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the onetime chief of the Sinaloa Cartel now imprisoned in the USA, have been amongst these charged, Garland stated. Ovidio Guzman Lopez, one in all his sons, was arrested in Mexico and is awaiting extradition proceedings, federal prosecutors in Manhattan stated.

“They know that they are poisoning and killing Individuals. They simply do not care as a result of they make billions of {dollars} doing it,” Anne Milgram, chief of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, stated of Guzman’s sons. “Their greed is stunning and with out bounds.”

Prosecutors additionally charged 4 house owners of Chinese language firms that allegedly offered precursor chemical compounds to the cartel.

The U.S. Treasury Division on Friday additionally slapped sanctions on China-based chemical firms Wuhan Shuokang Organic Expertise Co Ltd and Suzhou Xiaoli Pharmatech Co Ltd.

(Reporting by Katharine Jackson in Washington and Luc Cohen in New York; modifying by Jonathan Oatis)

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