NC Attorney General Jeff Jackson: “Fentanyl money laundering occurring…in app called WeChat”

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson on Monday announced a bi-partisan effort with attorneys general from other states to combat fentanyl money laundering. During a news conference in Charlotte, Jackson says drug traffickers are using Chinese messaging apps to facilitate their crimes. The Attorney General says he has worked to secure commitments from messaging app WeChat to help law enforcement disrupt the pipeline.

Jackson says, “We looked at where this money was flowing, and the evidence was pretty clear that one of the main places where fentanyl money laundering was occurring was in an app called WeChat. After many months of work, that we secured a number of agreements with WeChat to be more responsive to law enforcement, to be more proactive in making their encrypted spaces hostile to fentanyl, money laundering, and to escalating emergency requests from law enforcement.”

Jackson says his coalition has sent a letter to President Donald Trump asking for help from the federal government to work with the Chinese government to help stop drug trafficking from Chinese mobile messaging apps.