A Chinese "underground banking" network has been accused by the US of assisting the powerful Sinaloa drugs cartel in Mexico with money laundering and other crimes.
24 people have been charged by the Department of Justice (DoJ) with crimes that also include distributing drugs.
Cops have seized about $5m (£4m) in continues, as well as weapons and many pounds of cocaine, methamphetamine and delight pills.
The DoJ promoted the nearby co-activity with Mexican and Chinese policing a message that has been reverberated on the Chinese side.
The US blames the Sinaloa cartel for assisting with filling a dangerous scourge by flooding the country with fentanyl, a manufactured narcotic up to multiple times more grounded than heroin.
The DoJ featured a "connivance" during which more than $50m in drug continues moved between the Sinaloa gangsters and Chinese underground "cash trades".
It claimed that Sinaloa agents were transferring their illegally acquired cash from the United States to Mexico through these underground exchanges.
The Department of Justice stated that these Chinese exchanges provide a "ready market" for US currency, explaining that some Chinese citizens desire "informal alternatives" to conventional banking due to the Beijing government's cap on the amount of money they are permitted to withdraw from China.
The AFP news agency reported that authorities in Beijing had arrested a suspect for money laundering in a statement that appeared to confirm the rare close collaboration with the United States.
That individual had been engaged with running a US vehicle sales center prior to changing to "unlawful unfamiliar trade exchanging".
The Department of Justice added that "in the coming weeks," the majority of the 24 suspects named in the indictment will appear in a Los Angeles court.
The US has long blamed China itself for flooding the country with destructive medications like fentanyl - a charge that China denies.
More than 70,000 Americans will die from fentanyl overdoses in 2022, and Washington claims that Chinese-made opioids are fueling the nation's worst drug crisis.
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