{"id":65040,"date":"2024-06-19T06:11:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T21:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/18\/us-mexico-sinaloa-china-drugs-money"},"modified":"2024-06-19T06:11:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T21:11:11","slug":"us-accuses-chinese-underground-bankers-of-laundering-50m-in-cartel-drug-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65040","title":{"rendered":"US accuses Chinese \u2018underground bankers\u2019 of laundering $50m in cartel drug money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justice department charges 24 defendants and says long investigation reveals links between Mexico\u2019s Sinaloa gang and China<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/08\/mexico-cartel-project-synthetic-opioid-fentanyl-drugs\">Revealed: how Mexico\u2019s Sinaloa cartel has created a global network to rule the fentanyl trade<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US justice department has accused Chinese \u201cunderground bankers\u201d of helping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/mexico\">Mexico<\/a>\u2019s Sinaloa cartel launder more than $50m in drug-trafficking proceeds.<\/p>\n<p>An indictment unsealed in California charged 24 defendants with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine and money-laundering offenses.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/18\/us-mexico-sinaloa-china-drugs-money\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice department charges 24 defendants and says long investigation reveals links between Mexico\u2019s Sinaloa gang and ChinaRevealed: how Mexico\u2019s Sinaloa cartel has created a global network to rule the fentanyl tradeThe US justice department has accused&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,41,50,1057,1405,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-drugs-trade","category-mexico","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65041,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65040\/revisions\/65041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}