The Mexican government has extradited a Chinese fentanyl kingpin to the United States.
From CNN: “Mexico has handed an alleged Chinese fentanyl kingpin over to authorities in the United States, where he is wanted for money laundering and drug trafficking.”
“Zhi Dong Zhang is accused in court documents of exporting, transporting and distributing more than 1,000 kg of cocaine and 1,800 kg of fentanyl as well as laundering more than $150 million in illegal annual profits, according to CNNE.”
“Investigators claim the Chinese national, known by the alias ‘Brother Wang,’ operated in the US, Central America, Europe, China and Japan and that he formed alliances with Mexican criminal organizations to carry out trafficking, the records show.”
“[Zhi Dong] Zhang was first arrested in Mexico last October and granted house arrest while awaiting a court hearing for his extradition to the US. On July 11 this year he escaped from house arrest and was later recaptured in Cuba, National Security Minister Omar Garcia Harfuch said in a post on X. “Today he was handed over to the United States authorities,” Harfuch said on Thursday [October 23rd]. He thanked the Cuban government for its ‘valuable cooperation’ in recapturing [Zhi Dong] Zhang.”
According to Soldier of Fortune magazine, Zhi Dong Zhang was working with both the Sinaloa Cartel and the CJNG.