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Wuhan Chemical Company Officials Face Charges Over Fentanyl Production and Sales in US

The four defendants were arrested in China and face similar charges there, but they won’t be extradited.
Wuhan Chemical Company Officials Face Charges Over Fentanyl Production and Sales in US
An officer from the US Customs and Border Protection, Trade and Cargo Division finds Oxycodone pills in a parcel at John F. Kennedy Airport's US Postal Service facility on June 24, 2019 in New York. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images
Jill McLaughlin
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Chemical company officials based in Wuhan, China, were charged Nov. 7 in federal court in Los Angeles in connection with making and distributing fentanyl and its precursor chemicals to customers in the United States.

A grand jury indicted four company officials of Hubei Aoks Bio-Tech Co., alleging the company sold controlled substances and chemicals used in fentanyl manufacturing in Los Angeles and throughout the United States from Nov. 24, 2016, to Nov. 2, 2023.

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