GOP Senator Wants Justice Nominee to Explain Stake in Company
- Gupta’s father chairs firm whose product diverted by narcos
- Mexico is probing distribution of Avantor’s acetic anhydride
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Senator Chuck Grassley, the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, wants senior Department of Justice nominee Vanita Gupta to answer questions about her multimillion-dollar stake in U.S. chemical company Avantor.
Avantor Inc., whose board is chaired by Gupta’s father Rajiv Gupta, stopped all Mexican and Latin American sales of acetic anhydride, the only essential heroin chemical, after a Bloomberg Businessweek investigation last year found it was easily diverted for narcotics production. Mexico launched an investigation into the sale and distribution of the chemical after the Bloomberg report, but has not publicly named the company as a target.