He Sinaloa Cartel conspired with groups based in California and associated with Chinese Secret Banking For launder over $50 million from drug trafficking, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said.

The U.S. agency said it was working closely with law enforcement authorities in Mexico and China and that those countries recently apprehended the fugitives named in a superseding indictment unsealed Monday who fled the United States after being indicted last year.

Washington is seeking closer cooperation with both Mexico and China to stem the flow of illegal drugs that cause many overdose deaths in the United States each year.

He sought cooperation with Beijing amid strained bilateral relations.

The Sinaloa Cartel, one of Mexico’s most powerful criminal organizations, has also been sanctioned by the United States.

The Department of Justice announced a new indictment 10 charges against associates of the Sinaloa cartel is based in Los Angeles after a “multi-year investigation.”

“The DEA investigation uncovered an alliance between Sinaloa Cartel associates and a Chinese crime syndicate operating in Los Angeles and China to launder money related to drug trafficking,” Martin Estrada, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, said in a statement.

“Laundering drug money gives the Sinaloa Cartel the ability to produce and import its deadly poison into the United States,” he added.

the new indictment charges a total of 24 defendants “One count of conspiracy to aid and abet the distribution of cocaine and methamphetamine, one count of conspiracy to launder monetary instruments and one count of conspiracy to operate a money transmitting business without a license.”

The Justice Department said a money laundering network linked to the Sinaloa Cartel collected and processed – with the help of a California money transfer ring and connections to Chinese underground banking – large amounts of dollar drug proceeds in Los Angeles.

On May 16, two Sinaloa Cartel members who pleaded guilty to running a fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine trafficking network in the United States were sentenced to life in prison. Photo: Pexels

Next, They allegedly hid proceeds from drug trafficking According to the Justice Department, proceeds generated in the United States were made available to cartel members in Mexico and other countries.

Law enforcement too captured five million dollars in proceeds from drug trafficking – 302 kilograms of cocaine, 92 kilograms of methamphetamine, 3 thousand ecstasy tablets.

As well as three semi-automatic rifles with high-capacity magazines and eight semi-automatic pistols.

Twenty people charged in the new indictment are expected to appear in Los Angeles District Court in the coming weeks. One of them appeared on Monday. (Reuters)