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The Underworld Podcast

Fentanyl's Surge from China To Mexico to St Louis

The Underworld Podcast

The Underworld Podcast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6871 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Over the last three years there's been an explosion of fentanyl on the streets of America and it's led to over 100,000 Americans dying from drug overdoses, the overwhelming majority because of fent. In this episode, Sean lays out the way producers in China have connected with Mexican drug cartels from shipping precursors to laundering money, where Danny speaks on the effects he's seen in the streets of St. Louis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

November 2018.

0:04.2

Ganjan Bing has been following the path of many Chinese immigrants to the West.

0:08.7

He's hard working and innovative, and he's having great success with his businesses. so much so that he started new ones, just really diversifying.

0:17.0

Back in the day, Ghan, who everyone calls Gary, had a shoe factory in China.

0:21.0

But in 2011, he decided to strike out for greener

0:24.8

pastures and ended up in of all places Guadalajara Mexico where he opened a

0:29.8

seafood export business and a little silent on that I kind of feel like there's the third or fourth time that we've covered a dude in organized crime who runs a seafood export business. Like what is it about buying and selling shrimp that attracts so many mafiosos? I don't know. Anyway, Gons not just

0:44.5

running scallops though. In fact, he's actually laundering tens of millions of

0:48.2

dollars for the Mexican cartels through Chinese banks. Money connected to

0:51.8

fentanyl trafficking.

0:53.6

Gary cooks up the scheme to do some money washing for the cartels,

0:56.6

and he recruits one of his buddies from the shoe factory to help him out.

0:59.8

A woman will call Limb.

1:01.8

The scheme is pretty simple, most importantly it keeps the money

1:05.4

out of US banks. Lim collects the drug money in the US. As much as 1.5 million

1:11.4

dollars in cash delivered in $10,000 bundles and parking lots of shopping malls and things like that.

1:17.5

And then brings it to a totally unrelated Chinese business person.

1:21.5

The owner of like, you know, a small restaurant or a

1:24.7

bodega in Chinatown in Manhattan. The business person then uses their

1:29.0

Chinese bank account to send the equivalent in Huon to Ghan's Chinese bank account.

1:34.0

And Ghan, he usually takes a commission of about 5% for his troubles.

1:37.2

Lim receives a smaller lung payment.

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