The US Department of Justice made criminal charges to four Chinese chemical manufacturing companies and eight Chinese citizens on Friday (June 23), accusing them of illegal trafficking for chemicals to make fentanyl.
This is the first time that the US government has accused Chinese entities selling Fenti Quan Chemicals in the United States.
Comprehensive Reuters and Agence France -Presse reported that the Chinese companies involved in the three different prosecutions include the Biotechnology Company of Hubei Amavel (Transliteration), Anhui Rencheng Technology Co., Ltd., Anhui MokErxin Materials Technology Co., Ltd. and Hefei Grandulsk.The charged eight people are executives and employees of these four companies.
The indictment said that these Chinese companies and employees sell for chemicals for the production of fentanyl and provide formulas and precursor chemicals to produce fentanyl to help increase the output of fentanyl.
The front body is also called the front -wheel drive body, the first quality, etc. In the field of chemistry, the forefront is a chemical substance that can participate in chemical reactions. The result of the reaction is to generate another chemical substance.The indictment stated that the above -mentioned prosecution Chinese entity mainly sold the fentanyl's former body chemicals to Sinaloa Cartel, Mexico's Sinaira drug trafficking group, which led to fentanyl to fill the United States.
Merrick Garland, Minister of Justice, said that one of the Chinese companies only trafficking to the United States to produce chemicals related to fentanyls to create 50 kg of fentanylThis weight is enough to poison 25 million Americans.
Among them, Amaville Biotechnology Company and 35 -year -old executive Wang Qingzhou (transliteration), 31 -year -old Chen Yiyi (transliteration) and Yang Er (transliteration) offered fentanyl trafficking, easy to control, easy to controlThe crime of importing and laundering of poisonous chemicals.
The U.S. Department of Justice said that the undercover American Anti -Drugs (DEA) who disguised as a manufacturer of fennea (DEA) met with Wang and Chen earlier this year, and agreed to buy 210 kilograms of fentanyl's front body.Chemicals, pay in the form of cryptocurrencies.The U.S. Drugs Return from a warehouse in Los Angeles in May to retrieve these chemicals.
Wang, Chen and Yang are all Chinese citizens.Wang and Chen were arrested by the Agent of the United States Drug Administration after being officially expelled by Fiji on June 8.The two were ordered by federal judicial judges in the Hawaii Sandalu Mountain the next day and were waiting to be sent to New York.The defendant named Yang is still escaping.
The indictment stated that Hubei Amaville also posted documents on its official website and publicly boasted to sell fentanyl chemicals to the United States and Mexican drug bases.
Garland said that several law enforcement actions adopted by the Ministry of Justice were to prevent Fantne's former body chemicals from being transported from China to Mexico and the United States.
Lisa Monaco, deputy minister of the United States, said that these cases "opened a new world by attacking the Fenne supply chain from the source."
She said: "Fentney constitutes a significant threat, not only because the minimum dose may be fatal, but also because Fentney does not exist in nature. It is completely artificial,"
But Liu Pengyu, a spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in the United States, blamed that the US move was a carefully planned capture operation, which seriously violated the legal rights of relevant enterprises and individuals.
