(Washington Composite Electric) The United States imposed sanctions on 17 entities and individuals of China and Mexico, accusing them of participating in the production of cross -border sales to produce counterfeit drugs for counterfeiting and containing fentanyl.
Sanctions include seven entities and six individuals in China, as well as one entity and three people in Mexico.
The U.S. Treasury Department said that the sanctioned entities and individuals sold the so -called pills and other equipment to the manufacturers of illegal drugs. These pills function made illegal drugs look like legal drugs.The manufacturer uses the equipment to produce a pill containing Fennei, and to printed fake trademarks similar to XANAX and M30 to the pills containing fentanyl.These pills are usually shipped to the United States.
The Deputy Minister of the U.S. Treasury responsible for terrorism and financial intelligence, Nelson, said that these measures aims to deal with .According to a report released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this month, from 2016 to 2021, the excessive mortality of the United States due to the excess of drugs in the United States increased by more than three times.
Nelson said in a statement: "Fake drugs mixed with fenny are the main causes of these deaths, bringing disasters to thousands of American families each year. We will continue to fight the accomplices of drug production and disintegrate to disintegrate.This fatal production chain and the threat caused by drugs. "
