Yuancheng headquarters in Wuhan--a poison factory operating in plain sight

Russian cameraman Leonid Krivenkov
1-15-20  MOSCOW -- A former cameraman for a Russian state TV broadcaster who has spoken out and given interviews about political censorship and corruption at his former employer has been severely beaten by two men in Moscow, he told RFE/RL in an interview on January 15.  "The country is ruled by a bunch of gangsters from the backstreets," Krivenkov said.    https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-cameraman-krivenkov-beaten-censorship/30379616.html?withmediaplayer=1
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1 2-27-19  KABUL -- Afghanistan's Communist President

Hafizullah Amin was lying unconscious in his bed.  A KGB agent who had infiltrated Amin's staff as a cook had poisoned the president and his ministers during lunch at the Tajbeg presidential palace in Kabul.  It was December 27, 1979.

Two Soviet doctors, unaware of the KGB plot, worked desperately to revive Amin at the palace.  His ministers were rushed to a military hospital.

"The doctors put tubes through his nose and mouth to pump his stomach," Faqir Mohammad Faqir, the interior minister, who had rushed to the palace, tells RFE/RL. "When his stomach was cleaned out, the doctors took him to the bathroom. For 30 minutes they poured cold water over him."  After four long hours, Amin gradually regained consciousness. Still groggy, he muttered to Faqir, one of his most trusted men, to go to the nearby Defense Ministry building.   A few hours later, the Afghan president was lying in bed in his underpants when scores of KGB special forces stormed the presidential palace, killing Amin and his family members amid fierce clashes. Soviet forces also seized key government buildings and military installations in Kabul in a coordinated attack.

Moscow considered Amin, who had studied in the United States, an unpredictable ally. Some in the Kremlin suspected he had attempted to forge links with Washington. ...

Before the attack, hundreds of Soviet paratroopers -- members of the Soviet Army's Muslim Battalion -- and KGB special forces had surrounded the palace, taking cover in the heavy snow.   The KGB forces stormed the palace while the Soviet troops provided a ring of security around the building....Within hours the battle was over.  Over 200 Afghans were killed and over 1,000 surrendered.  Declassified KGB files said over 100 Soviet personnel were also killed in the fierce clashes.   https://www.rferl.org/a/poisonings-assassination-and-a-coup-the-secret-soviet-invasion-of-afghanistan/30347141.html

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1-2-20  An ethnic Kazakh Chinese national who was held for more than a year at an internment camp in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) is in immediate danger of forced repatriation from Kazakhstan by authorities she says are working at the behest of Beijing.

Guzire Awulqanqizi, who has a Kazakh green card, said she repeatedly applied for Kazakh citizenship over the course of the last year but has been repeatedly denied, and was recently informed by Kazakh immigration officials in the capital Nur-Sultan that her visa will soon expire.  “I don’t know why they are denying my request … I told them what I experienced in China,” she said.  https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/deport-01022020154739.html

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Yuancheng headquarters in Wuhan, China   BEN WESTHOFF

Yuancheng, which sells chemicals both to the general public and to other businesses. It offers more than 10,000 different compounds, a vast and head-scratching list, everything from food additives (including synthetic versions of cinnamon) to pharmaceuticals (including the drugs used in Viagra and Cialis) to collagen, pesticides, veterinary products, anabolic steroids, and precursor chemicals used to synthesize drugs, including fentanyl.

 According to Bryce Pardo, a fentanyl expert at the Rand Corporation, the two most commonly used fentanyl precursors—think of them as ingredients—are chemicals called NPP and 4-ANPP.  When I first started researching them, in early 2017, advertisements for the chemicals were all over the internet, from a wide variety of different companies. Later I determined that the majority of those companies were under the Yuancheng umbrella....

“Food additives officially,” a Yuancheng saleswoman named Alisa said when I asked what products her company specializes in. “Steroids and 4-ANPP NPP underground.”

“Our products are sold to the United States less,” added Chen Li.  “More is sold to Mexico.”  This isn’t surprising, since most illicit fentanyl used in America, where 32,000 people died from fentanyl last year, comes through Mexico.  Mexican cartels lack trained chemists to make fentanyl from scratch, so they buy precursors in bulk from China. After that, making finished fentanyl is simple.

Though it’s difficult to know for certain, if the size of its sales force, the quantity of its shell companies, and the strength of its advertising are any indication, it appears that Yuancheng has sold more of the NPP and 4-ANPP used illicitly than any other company.  It has done so not through secret underground networks or terrorist cells, but over the internet, using an army of young, perky sales representatives.  Posting cheeky job advertisements on the internet and offering employees free cellphones, it’s a poison factory operating in plain sight.  https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/08/chinese-company-helping-fuel-opioid-epidemic/596254/

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Yuancheng Group is an integration of chemical manufacturer, trader, food & recreation, and real estate. Its fixed assets are 300 million RMB. Yuancheng headquarter is located in the city of Wuhan, a central city of transportation heart in China. The headquarter is a Red House near the Wuchang railway station. Yuancheng factory is in Nanhu Shouyi Industrial District, just by the side of the beautiful South Lake in Wuhan.   http://www.e-chemicals.com/?p=supplier&PartnerID=3624

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