Wired
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The US Treasury Department last month levied sanctions against four Chinese men and two chemical labs for selling fentanyl precursors to drug cartels in Mexico.
The US government may be increa today y aware of the role of fentanyl precursor sellers in China and cryptocurrency's part it in.
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