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Handel On The Law

Chinese Nationals Arrested In U.S.

Handel On The Law

KFI AM 640

News

2.2826 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Handel on the Law, Marginal Legal Advice.

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0:00.0

There's a case, there's a trial going on right now.

0:05.0

And it has to do with two Chinese citizens, two night Chinese nationals are standing trial in New York.

0:12.0

And this is related to fentanyl trade, and this is the landmark case, and I'll tell you about that in a moment.

0:19.0

They were arrested, apprehended in a sting

0:22.0

operation in Fiji in June of 2023. They were expelled from Fiji and arrested in the U.S.

0:32.5

Where they've been held and now trial in federal court is going on.

0:38.8

Now, these 2023 indictments were the first prosecutions against Chinese nationals

0:44.6

and a China-based company for trafficking fentanyl precursor chemicals into the U.S.

0:53.4

It's not just a couple of cockroaches who are doing this and bringing in chemicals.

1:00.4

They make fentanyl out of.

1:01.8

No, it's a company also.

1:03.6

I mean, it is a chemical company that is in China, the Hu-Bai Amarvel Biotech company. And they shipped with these two guys more than 200

1:15.4

kilograms, about 500 and something pounds, if not more, of fentanyl-related chemical precursors.

1:22.9

And you always get this numerical equivalent that you can make enough fentanyl to kill 25 million

1:32.1

Americans with this much.

1:34.9

And Arm-A-Marvell biotech is one of a number of Chinese companies that do this.

1:41.7

And what happens is these are precursors chemicals that then are brought in,

1:48.1

operated by drug cartels in the U.S. and Mexico, and then fentanyl is manufactured, and it's like

1:54.7

killing so many people. Now, what makes this kind of interesting is they get arrested in Fiji and then they're

2:04.6

kicked out of Fiji and then they're arrested in the U.S. and they're Chinese nationals.

2:10.0

I don't quite know how they were arrested in the U.S. unless there was an arrest warrant made and Fiji allowed

2:20.7

them to happen because this is the first time Chinese nationals are being tried in the United

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