Wuhan Chemical Company Officials Face Charges Over Fentanyl Production and Sales in US

Published on November 9, 2024

Chemical company officials based in Wuhan, China, were charged Nov. 7 in federal court in Los Angeles in connection with making and distributing fentanyl and its precursor chemicals to customers in the United States. A grand jury indicted four company officials of Hubei Aoks Bio-Tech Co., alleging the company sold controlled substances and chemicals used in fentanyl manufacturing in Los Angeles and throughout the United States from Nov. 24, 2016, to Nov. 2, 2023. Chinese officials said the four defendants have been arrested on similar criminal charges in China. The defendants can’t be extradited to Los Angeles, according to a spokesman for federal prosecutors. “There’s no extradition treaty between the People’s Republic of China and the United States,” U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman Ciaran McEvoy told The Epoch Times. “Beyond that, I can’t comment.”...

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