Wuhan's Jiang'an police have exposed a money laundering operation involving utility payment channels, with funds totaling 16 million yuan (approximately $2.2 million). The case began when a local resident, Mr. Feng, was defrauded of over 560,000 yuan through a romance scam app that lured him into a fake utility bill payment scheme. Authorities revealed that individuals, including Fang and Lu, knowingly facilitated the laundering of fraudulently obtained funds by connecting with overseas scam groups via chat apps and recruiting sub-agents. The police identified the network through 40,000 chat records and over 4,000 WeChat groups. The intermediaries involved converted the collected funds into cryptocurrency and transferred them abroad. The suspects have been detained, and investigations are ongoing.