Suspected Fentanyl Kingpin called “brother wang” was extradited from Cuba to us, Mexico said
Chinese citizens suspected of smuggling have been extradited from Cuba to the United States, according to the Mexican government, which helped provide the transfer.
Zhi dong zhang, known as “Brother Wang,” He escaped from a Mexican prison in July, and has now been transferred to US custody, according to Mexican security secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch.
Zhang is accused of being “responsible for international drug trafficking, money laundering, and ties to criminal groups with a presence in the Americas, Europe and Asia,” said Harfuch, according to BBC Mundo.
US authorities accused Zhang in a lawsuit filed in federal court in July 2025 of running drug trafficking and money laundering in Los Angeles and Atlanta. Zhang arranged the importation of fentanyl and cocaine from Mexico into the United States, then distributed the drugs in Illinois, Georgia, Michigan and other locations across the state, the documents show.
Authorities said in court documents Zhang deposited large sums of money into a US bank account in the name of a fictitious organization.
He is suspected of working closely with the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation Drase Cartels, designated “foreign terrorist organizations” by Washington.
The Cuban government said that “after a formal request for extradition,” the suspected applicant was handed over to Mexican authorities.
Mexico or Havana explained that Zhang was transferred to the United States through Mexican soil, or if he was transferred directly to Cuba.
A wanted poster released by Mexican prosecutors in July said that in addition to “Brother Wang,” Zhang has other aliases, including “BW,”
Zhang is considered a major international money operator,” Garcia said last year. He is accused of defrauding at least $20 million in the US between 2020 and 2021 through more than 100 companies and bank accounts, reports El Pais accounts.
The alleged applicant caused “to establish contact with other carchels for the transfer of Fentanyl from China to China to America, America, Europe, the United States,” he added.
His arrest in Cuba was confirmed earlier on Wednesday by the Security Secretariat.
Since President Trump returned to the White House in January, Washington has been putting pressure on Mexico and China to stop drug trafficking, especially Fentanyl. The Trump Administration has hit both countries Prices.
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin and is much easier and cheaper to produce.
It has replaced heroin and prescription opioids such as oxycodone as cause of overdoses in the United States.
The government of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has Drug addiction is compounded Under the pressure of tax rates from Mr. Trump, who has threatened more punitive measures unless the problem is resolved.
Although Mexico has been the main source of Fentanyl sold in the United States, Washington has turned its attention to China-based suppliers of Premusine Ingredients.
The extradition comes as the US continues military strikes against suspected drug traffickers from South America, including Another was reported on Friday That killed six people on a vessel in the Caribbean.
