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Lawmakers: Chinese Networks Enable Drug Cartels ^⁠93%

6/9/2026, 8:48:44 PM

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Chinese money laundering networks are moving hundreds of billions for Mexican cartels helping fuel America's fentanyl epidemic.

Lawmakers on the House Financial Services Committee diving into the problem with expert witnesses today.

Entities Washington correspondent Jack Bradley has the details.

>> These networks are not comprised of petty criminals.

They are professional money launderers who move billions through our financial system.

>> Chinese money laundering networks are the financial lifeline enabling Mexican cartels to flood America with fentanyl

and thereby destroy communities.

A House Financial Services hearing exposing how these drug cartels launder billions through these Chinese networks.

>> Chinese money laundering networks have become the financial fuel for cartels to poison Americans and threaten our borders.

We're seeing a silk road of crime across the Americas.

>> According to Treasury Department data between 2020 and 2024 more than 300 billion dollars in suspicious activity linked to suspected Chinese money laundering networks have been identified.

Witnesses describe these networks enabling cartels like Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

Chinese companies sell cartels fentanyl precursor chemicals.

Cartels put those into pills and then sell those drugs into the US.

That cash is transferred or sold back to China by money brokers through underground banking networks, shell companies, trade transactions, and cryptocurrency.

That allows cartels to access those funds abroad including purchasing more fentanyl precursor chemicals from China.

Several witnesses say that the Chinese Communist Party has the capabilities to crack down on these networks being an authoritarian regime and all but chooses not to.

>> China has one of the largest surveillance networks globally. There's other individuals are moving these funds are probably politically connected in China and China's looking the other way.

Is that your analysis?

>> 100% I mean, we have to basically call out the the Chinese for turning a blind eye to these criminal activities.

>> China is a command state.

They if they want to end something, they can end something.

If they want to do something, they can do something.

something, they can do something. We need to call them out and tell them that

they are the largest transnational criminal actor in the world and they are the largest money launderer in the world.

>> As fentanyl remains the leading killer of Americans aged 18 to 45, lawmakers

say that breaking these Chinese money laundering networks is key to starving these cartels.

Jack Bradley, NTD News, Washington.

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