North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson released an Instagram video on May 27, criticizing the Chinese social media and messaging app WeChat for fueling the fentanyl crisis in the United States.
The video was a follow-up to a letter that Jackson and five other state attorneys general sent to WeChat US, Inc. earlier this month, demanding accountability from the company over concerns that fentanyl traffickers had been using the platform for money laundering.
“You have a major problem,” Jackson said, addressing WeChat directly. “Mexican cartels are using your app to clean their cash.
“They’re arranging pickups, they’re finding brokers in China to swap currency, they’re moving billions across borders in money laundering….
North Carolina AG Says Chinese App WeChat Has Become ‘Digital Hub for Fentanyl Trafficking’
