The Bad PlaceChicago Sun-Times - All | Hombre chino ayudó a enviar $3 millones a cárteles mexicanos en operativo de lavado de dinero en Chicago by Frank Main
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The article reports that Chinese national Weiliang Zheng pleaded guilty in a Chicago federal court to helping a money‑laundering network move roughly $3 million of illicit drug proceeds from Chicago to Mexican cartels through China. From 2016 to 2018 Zheng and his alleged accomplice Di Xiong Luo collected cash from Chicago‑area drug sales, counted it, and transferred it to a Chinese contact using “mirror‑exchange” schemes that moved equivalent funds from U.S.‑based Chinese couriers into Chinese bank accounts and then to Mexican accounts to evade U.S. banking detection. Zheng faces a minimum sentence of about 70 months; Luo remains awaiting trial. The case is part of a larger U.S. crackdown on Chinese‑run laundering operations that have been supplanting Mexican money‑launderers for the cartels, with other figures such as Xianbing Gan and Haiping Pan receiving lengthy prison terms for similar schemes.
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Hombre chino ayudó a enviar $3 millones a cárteles mexicanos en operación de lavado de dinero en Chicago
La DEA comenzó a ver en 2015 a lavadores de dinero chinos reemplazando a los mexicanos. Weiliang Zheng podría enfrentar al menos 70 meses de prisión por ayudar a mover ganancias ilegales provenientes de drogas de Chicago a México a través de China.