Former DEA Agent Reveals Where the Profits From This Deadly Drug Go
. . .Derek Maltz [a former DEA special agent], who worked with Project Synergy, which tracked the synthetic drug distribution network and arrested over 225 people in 2012, claims that much of the money from the sale of K2 or Spice gets sent to Yemen to fund AQAP, a division of Al Qaeda.
As LiveScience reported in 2017 when covering a review of studies regarding synthetic marijuana, “Some of the reported side effects of synthetic marijuana compounds include convulsions, kidney injury, toxicity to the heart, strokes and anxiety. So far, 20 deaths have been linked to the use of synthetic marijuana compounds, the researchers said.”
Maltz told WTOP, “We saw mass amounts, in the millions of dollars, going through U.S. banks, back to Yemen, We started identifying some very, very suspicious people in Yemen, who were receiving the money and involved in ATM withdrawals in Yemen.”
Maltz added, “You don’t see a million dollars a week, or 30 million dollars a month leaving the United States to go to Yemen. It’s just very abnormal behavior — Yemen is a very poor country. There’s a lot of recruiting of jihadists in that country, and we also seized videos — martyrdom-style, radical terrorist-style videos that are being pushed out on the internet.” (Read more from “Former DEA Agent Reveals Where the Profits From This Deadly Drug Go” HERE)
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