US Edition25 years in jail for Chinese exec convicted of trafficking fentanyl ingredients
Wang Qingzhou led a Wuhan-based company that shipped hundreds of kilograms of fentanyl precursors to the US, contributing to the synthetic opioid overdose crisis, officials said.
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Chinese Importer of Fentanyl Precursors Sentenced to 25 Years
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…
Chinese executive jailed for 25 years by New York judge over trafficking fentanyl ingredients
A Chinese company executive has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for trafficking in chemicals used to manufacture fentanyl, the Justice Department said Friday. The US Department of Justice. Photo: justice.gov. Qingzhou Wang, 37, principal executive of Amarvel Biotech, a company based in Wuhan, and Yiyi Chen, 33, the firm’s marketing manager, were convicted in New York in February of fentanyl precusor importation and money laundering. Distric…
On Friday (September 19), the Southern District of New York U.S. District Court sentenced Qingzhou Wang, the owner of Amarvel Biotech in Wuhan, Hubei, to 25 years in prison for trafficking fentanyl precursor chemicals into the United States, money laundering, and related offenses. He will also serve three years of supervised release in the United States. This means he will be confined to the United States for the next 28 years.
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