Senator Warren Wants to Know How Drug Agencies Are Pursuing Fentanyl and Cryptocurrency Relationships

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is demanding to know how the Biden administration is working to limit the use of cryptocurrencies in fentanyl trafficking. According to the letter She and other lawmakers were deployed to the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

Warren and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) asked for an update on “actions to crack down on the exploitation of cryptocurrencies by drug traffickers to grow their operations and launder their ill-gotten profits.” “Over the past decade, it has played an increasingly important role in the global fentanyl trade, both in facilitating the manufacture and trafficking of fentanyl and in laundering the proceeds of crime for drug cartels.”