Australian police allege they have evidence of meetings between John Zhang, right, and agents of Chinese Communist Party foreign influence unit, the United Front Work Department. "In view of the cash identified at Mr Zhang's residential premises … the AFP is … investigating Mr Zhang and other persons for suspected money laundering offences," the documents state. The case outline says the AFP questioned Zhang about the cash at the time of the raids, but "has not put any allegation of money laundering allegations directly to Mr Zhang." The case documents reveal the AFP has spent months trying to access Zhang's WeChat account because he failed to meet a court order to hand over the password. It says the AFP is trying to extract and analyse more than 2 million WeChat messages found on two phones seized from Zhang's home.

Source: The Standard November 19, 2020 12:09 UTC