Overview

• Zhang escaped house arrest through a tunnel in Mexico City on July 11, triggering a coordinated manhunt by Mexican security forces and U.S. agencies.
• Sheinbaum publicly decried the judge’s decision to grant him domiciliary confinement, citing a lack of justification and concerns over judicial corruption.
• The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia issued a $20 million money-laundering warrant against Zhang on the same day he fled.
• DEA testimony details a network of about 150 shell companies and 170 bank accounts that processed roughly $20 million in illicit funds between 2020 and 2021.
• U.S. authorities allege Zhang was the principal fentanyl supplier to the Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación cartels, moving thousands of kilograms of drugs and laundering over $150 million annually.