Two Chinese businesses were sanctioned by the United States after allegedly supplying precursor chemicals used to produce fentanyl to drug cartels in Mexico.
Two Chinese businesses were sanctioned Friday by the United States after allegedly supplying precursor chemicals used to produce fentanyl to drug cartels in Mexico.
"Illicit fentanyl is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans each year," said Brian E. Nelson, the Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, in a announcing the sanctions. The department"will continue to vigorously apply our tools" to stop chemicals from being transferred, he said.members in a sprawling fentanyl trafficking investigation. The indictments also charged four Chinese citizens and one Guatemalan citizen with supplying those chemicals. The same five were also sanctioned by the Treasury Department, according to its release.
In recent years, the Drug Enforcement Administration has called on the Chinese government to crack down on supply chain networks producing precursor chemicals. DEA Administrator Anne Milgram told CBS News last year that
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