By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
Hoping to combat China’s role in the drug trade, the DEA is planning to open a new office in Southern China, and a top administrator is visiting the country next week.
The visit will be the first in more than a decade for the DEA, the Associated Press reports.
DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg plans to visit Beijing, Guangzhou and Hong Kong next week.
China invited the DEA to help crack down on the increasing sale of synthetic drugs to the U.S.
If all goes as planned, two special agents will occupy a new office in the city of Guangzhou.
“Intelligence and investigative information have shown that Guangzhou has strong ties to international drug trafficking organizations operating in China and elsewhere,” Russell Baer, a DEA special agent in Washington, said in an email. “These criminal groups in Guangzhou utilize trade-based money laundering schemes to legitimize drug profits, use the port facilities as a transit point to ship illegal narcotics, and purchase synthetic drugs along with precursor chemicals.”
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