Crime & Public Safety

Chinese Importer of Fentanyl Precursors Sentenced to 25 Years

‘Americans were dying, but they kept selling,’ a DEA official said.
Chinese Importer of Fentanyl Precursors Sentenced to 25 Years
Tablets suspected to be fentanyl are placed on a graph at a Drug Enforcement Administration regional office in New York on Oct. 8, 2019. Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images
Catherine Yang
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U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe on Sept. 18 sentenced a Chinese chemical company executive to 25 years in prison and three years supervised release for his role in importing fentanyl precursors to the United States.

Qingzhou Wang ran Amarvel Biotech in Hubei, China. A jury in January found Wang and coconspirator Yiyi Chen guilty of fentanyl precursor importation, money laundering, and, in the case of Wang, methamphetamine precursor importation.
Catherine Yang
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Catherine Yang has been with The Epoch Times in New York since 2008. She also launched and previously served as chief editor of American Essence magazine and Epoch Health.