India, April 28 -- The United States has rolled out sweeping sanctions against a global drug supply network with links to India, targeting individuals and entities accused of supplying precursor chemicals used by the Sinaloa Cartel to produce synthetic opioids.

India-based suppliers have been placed at the centre of the crackdown on a global synthetic opioid network, with the US Treasury department naming Gujarat-based operator Satishkumar Hareshbhai Sutaria and associate Yuktakumari Ashishkumar Modi for facilitating shipments of key fentanyl precursors, often mislabelled as "safe chemicals", to Mexico and Guatemala.

The US has sanctioned 23 individuals and entities linked to the Sinaloa Cartel, showing both India's role both as a sourc...