A man in China has been sentenced to death for trafficking fentanyl to the United States
. Much of the world’s fentanyl is believed to be made in China, and the drug had become a point of contention between the U.S. and China as fentanyl-related overdose deaths rose in the United States.
President Donald Trump had alsoThe investigation began with a Drug Enforcement Administration arrest in New Orleans in August 2017 and eventually led to investigators uncovering a lab and two distribution centers in Shanghai and Jiangsu. Liu was accused of running the whole operation, and upon shutting it down, authorities reportedly seized about 26 pounds of fentanyl. The investigation reportedly also led to arrests and indictments in New York and Oregon.
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