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A US grand jury has indicted 22 Chinese nationals and four Chinese firms on drug trafficking and money laundering charges related to the production and distribution of fentanyl. The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on one of those firms and two of its representatives.

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00:00A U.S. grand jury has indicted 22 Chinese nationals and four drug companies on trafficking
00:07and money laundering charges.
00:09The U.S. Justice Department accuses them of supplying chemicals used to make fentanyl.
00:14The U.S. government also imposed sanctions on one of the companies and two of its representatives.
00:20It comes amid an opioid epidemic in the U.S.
00:23More than 100,000 Americans die from drugs like fentanyl each year.

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