The United States on Aug. 25 sanctioned an alleged Chinese fentanyl kingpin, describing him as “one of the most significant drug traffickers in the world.”
Zhang Taotao, 32, a chemist and chemical supplier based in Shanghai, is accused of shipping fentanyl to the United States. Distributors would then press the drugs into large amounts of counterfeit pharmaceutical pills that were sold across the country, the treasury department said.
