A US federal Judge has sentenced a Chinese citizen to 5 years in jail for laundering millions of dollars for Mexican drug cartels.
On Tuesday, in a press release, the US Department of Justice announced that "A Chinese national was sentenced today to five years in prison & ordered to forfeit more than USD 4.2 million for laundering drug proceeds generated by large-scale cocaine trafficking in the United States".
The Justice Department said that Xueyong Wu, 40, established relationships with Latin American drug trafficking organizations to transport & launder their US-based drug proceeds.
Much of this money was generated through the movement of cocaine or payment for cocaine that took place within Virginia's eastern district.
The release said that "Wu received a percentage of the money involved in these transactions as compensation for organizing these laundering activities. Much of this money was generated through the movement of cocaine or payment for cocaine that took place within the Eastern District of Virginia".
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