US designates Chinese organized crime leader in anti-corruption sanctions

WASHINGTON: he United States on Wednesday slapped sanctions on Wan Kuok Koi, the leader of China's 14K Triad organized crime group and a member of the Chinese Communist Party's Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the US Treasury Department said in a statement.

The sanctions also apply to three entities headed by Wan, who is also known as "Broken Tooth."