The House Select Committee on China is releasing a report on China's role in the fentanyl crisis.
crisis, calling attention to the nation’s “abhorrent” actions and failure to pursue “flagrant” violations of its own laws.
“The fentanyl trade boosts China’s economy has allowed Chinese organized crime to become the world’s premier money launderers with US law enforcement finding evidence indicating that money laundering schemes involved Chinese government officials and the Chinese Communist Party elite,” the majority aide said.
After initial reporting, the CCP scrubbed the internet for the website that tracks the rebates. However, the committee investigators eventually located the information through the State Taxation Administration, which reports directly to the State Council, the top organ in the PRC government. Searching in English yielded no results, but searching in Mandarin allowed the committee to see “all forms of fentanyl” and the rebates associated with them.
China officials have also “obfuscated, delayed, and attempted to dissuade” American law enforcement from prosecuting criminal fentanyl traffickers, the report detailed. In May 2018, a Justice Department investigative team met with PRC officials to discuss a drug trafficking organization, but Chinese officials refused to engage with U.S. officials and would not cooperate with a separate investigation.
“The CCP’s failure to investigate these cases—and in many cases effectively notifying criminals of investigations into criminal conduct—is deeply disturbing,” the report continued, adding that the CCP’s failure to enforce its laws is “startling.”
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