US EditionAlleged Chinese drug trafficker recaptured in Cuba after escaping Mexican custody
Zhi Dong Zhang, linked to major cartels and laundering $20 million, was captured in Cuba after escaping Mexican house arrest and faces extradition to the US and Mexico.
- Mexico handed Zhi Dong Zhang over to U.S. authorities on Thursday after Cuba arrested him on July 31 with two others, Mexico's Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch confirmed.
- Accused of laundering at least $20 million in the United States between 2020 and 2021 through over 150 shell companies and 170 bank accounts, Zhi Dong Zhang is alleged to have led a criminal network for major Mexican cartels since at least 2016.
- He was arrested last year in Mexico City but escaped this summer after a judge controversially granted him house arrest; his escape was confirmed on July 11 after traveling with a false passport, being denied entry to Russia, and arriving in Cuba.
- Six days earlier a federal court in Georgia issued new charges against Zhi Dong, while Interpol had issued an international arrest warrant, and Omar García Harfuch thanked the Cuban government for its valuable collaboration.
- Amid Mexico–U.S. security negotiations, the case drew political scrutiny as Zhi Dong's network based in Los Angeles, California, and Atlanta, Georgia, links to Central and South America, Europe, and Asia.
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Chinese citizen Zhi Dong Zhang, accused in the United States of drug trafficking and money laundering, was handed over by Mexican authorities to the government of that country after he was at large in Mexico and was arrested in Cuba, reported...
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