The Chinese graduate accused of becoming Mexico’s ‘fentanyl king’

The Chinese graduate accused of being Mexico’s ‘fentanyl king’ “Brother Wang was very important. He was number one,” says Enrique, chuckling knowingly. Enrique – not his real name – describes himself as a high-level co-ordinator in Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel, one of the world’s most powerful criminal organisations. On the outskirts of Sinaloa’s state capital city, Culiacán, sitting in a parked car where no-one can overhear him, he explains how ingredients to make the deadly drug fentanyl are shipped thousands of miles from Chinese factories to laboratories in Mexico. Members of his cartel credit Brother Wang with establishing this supply chain….