To make West Bengal free from syndicate charges and extortion, the state budget stressed “an urgent need to significantly improve the investment climate by reducing the 'cost of doing business' caused by extortion and interference” by bringing a new legislation to dismantle syndicate raj.
The United States had been looking for El Mencho for years, charging that he and CJNG were smuggling large quantities of fentanyl and other drugs into the nation. The State Department even offered a $15,000,000 prize for information that led to his capture.