5-13-18 the direct precursor of fentanyl known as 4-ANPP, or 4-anilino-N-phenethyl-4-piperidine. In a local case from January, 4-ANPP was shipped from China to South Korea before touching down in Los Angeles on its way to Nogales, Arizona. Customs and Border Protection officers caught six packages at Los Angeles International Airport containing 4-ANPP.
But five more packages made it through Customs and headed to the apartment in Nogales, according to a sworn affidavit filed in February in U.S. District Court in Tucson by a U.S. postal inspector in a search-warrant request.
The shipment was addressed to a food company in Tucson, according to an application by a federal prosecutor for a warrant to track an electronic messaging service account used by a man in Mexico suspected of being the final recipient of the packages.
Agents delivered the package to the Tucson food company, where they found another 62 pounds of 4-ANPP. The packages were shipped using a private delivery service and were en route to Mexico, according to the prosecutor’s application for a warrant.
“Re-mailing is not a new concept in drug trafficking, we saw it a lot in our steroid investigations,” Curry said. “It is used across the country and across the world.”
In a similar case from Southern California, former Border Patrol agent Cesar Daleo was arrested for trying to drive into Mexico with a 2-pound package of 4-ANPP mailed from China. The package arrived at Los Angeles International Airport and was shipped to an address in San Ysidro, California. Daleo picked up packages at the same address 13 times that year, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of California.
Sellers were quoted saying the Postal Service catches fewer fentanyl shipments than private delivery companies like UPS or FedEx, which require senders to enter electronic data about the sender, recipient and contents of their parcels. The companies face large fines if they don’t comply. Nearly all international mail goes through service centers at airports in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Miami, according to the Senate report.
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On Sept. 13, 2019 DEA proposed that benzylfentanyl and 4-anilinopiperidine be controlled as list I chemicals under the Controlled Substances Act. https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2019/09/17/dea-proposes-control-three-precursor-chemicals-used-illicitly-manufacture
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11-27-18 A Global News investigation has found that in British Columbia, where the crisis has hit hardest, investigators believe the fentanyl trade revolves around the Big Circle Boys, a powerful crime network directed from the Chinese mainland.
What makes them so robust, according to sources, is their ability to corrupt Chinese officials, which allows them to control chemical factories in southern China and get fentanyl through Chinese customs and to the West.
“There are so many players we identified in B.C. But this is all directed from inside China,” an international policing expert said. “At the very top they are insulated. It’s government officials.”…
The gamblers could evade China’s tight currency export controls, get their wealth offshore and invest in Canadian real estate, using B.C. casinos as the conduit to obscure drug cash paper trails.
And the transnational gangsters could wash drug sales in B.C. and transfer funds back to gang bank accounts in China to produce and export more fentanyl precursors, according to RCMP’s forensic banking investigations.
Experts on the Big Circle Boys say the gang is directed from inside China, and some connected Chinese officials and industrialists are VIP gamblers in Metro Vancouver. Police are investigating these suspected crime bosses. But they are seen as untouchable in China and insulated from actual drug transactions in B.C., sources say.
But just underneath the untouchables, the sources say, are cells of kingpin entrepreneurs involved in many illegal schemes to wash and multiply drug cash….
The Big Circle Boys
Filings in Canadian legal cases explain how the network operates, and its connection to elites in China. In one refugee claim case, a factory owner that fled to Canada claimed he was chased from his home country after he reported that a neighbouring factory was producing ecstasy. The man said that after reporting his allegations to police in Guangdong he was attacked by gangsters and learned the drug factory was run by Big Circle Boys with links to Chinese government, military and police officials. -Cooper, Bell, Russell https://globalnews.ca/news/4658158/fentanyl-kingpins-canada-big-circle-boys/
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10-4-17 In the RCMP terminology they're transnational crime groups. The RCMP investigation showed this one alleged illegal cash house that was central to the scheme, which was connected to 600 bank accounts in China, was also connected to drug purchases in Mexico and Peru, and even connected to financial activity in Iran that the RCMP believed was terrorist financing. -Cooper https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/pa3b5y/the-money-laundering-scam-that-turns-drug-money-into-real-estate
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