NEW YORK—A jury in New York on Wednesday convicted two Chinese nationals who sold more than 440 pounds of fentanyl precursors to undercover U.S. law-enforcement agents.
Qingzhou Wang, an executive of Chinese chemical company Hubei Amarvel Biotech, and Yiyi Chen, an employee of the company, were convicted at the Manhattan federal court of making and selling piperidine and knowing or having reasonable cause to believe that the chemical would be imported to the United States and used to make fentanyl, according to a verdict returned on Wednesday and made available electronically on Thursday.
