Feds are now tracing crypto cash used by Mexican cartels that sell fentanyl
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Secretary Mayorkas told NBC News on Thursday that DHS “is seeking to hold individuals accountable, seizing their property and also interrupting their financial flow.”

The Department of Homeland Security has ramped up its effort to stop fentanyl and the chemicals used to make it from entering the U.S. by tracing cryptocurrency used by Mexican cartels, according to two U.S. officials involved in the strategy.

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    2•1 year ago

    Although the chemicals are controlled substances in China, it remains the largest supplier of precursor chemicals. Fentanyl is now the No. 1 killer of Americans aged 18 to 45, according to Families Against Fentanyl, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it claims the lives of more than 70,000 Americans each year.