An investigation is underway after a major drug bust at the southern border. Law enforcement say this case is unprecedented.
Two dozen Chinese nationals are charged with money laundering for Mexico’s Sinaloa drug cartel. Officials say they also conspired to inundate the U.S. with illicit drugs like fentanyl.
Federal prosecutors in southern California call it the first of is kind with more than $50 million in drug proceeds exchanged between the two groups.
U.S. Attorney General for the Central District of California Marti Estrada said, “Millions and millions of dollars are moved in proceeds from the drug sales in the United States back down to Mexico, and wealthy Chinese nationals in this country are given access to virtually limitless supplies of cash.”
Prosecutors say the cartel is using Chinese money launderers to convert this money into Chinese currency and then import goods from China back to Mexico.
That includes precursor chemicals for manufacturing drugs such as fentanyl and methamphetamine.
Law enforcement seized 300 pounds of cocaine alone and 10,000 fake fentanyl pills in this operation.
Who is this criminal network? The DEA says it’s an array of Chinese, Mexican, and American men who work as couriers, brokers, and traffickers in an
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