A profile of Chen Zhi, chairman of Cambodian conglomerate Prince Holding Group, accused by the US and UK of stealing billions of dollars via online scam centers
Bloomberg : X: @business . LinkedIn: Russell Ward and Rosalind Mathieson . Forums: r/geopolitics X: @business : Chen Zhi's family office website describes the 37-year-old as a “young business prodigy...
The US DOJ seizes ~$15B in bitcoin from a man who oversaw a Cambodian “pig butchering” operation, in the DOJ's largest ever forfeiture; the man remains at large
The Department of Justice has seized about $15 billion worth of bitcoin held by a man who oversaw a massive …
Internal documents and sources detail how Cambodia's Huione Group supercharged the growth of Asia's cyberscam industry into a multi-billion dollar behemoth
The US Treasury says this Cambodian conglomerate has laundered at least $4 billion for clients including North Korean hackers and transnational crime groups.
How one of the world's major money laundering networks, linked to Cambodia's Huione Group, services online scammers using cryptocurrencies, Telegram, and more
and what you can do about it New York Times : How We Investigated Money Laundering, and What We Found X: Mike Forsythe / @pekingmike : How Scammers Launder Money and Get Away With It - searing investi...
Analysis: North Korea's Lazarus sent $150K+ in crypto to Cambodian company Huione Pay between June 2023 and February 2024, showing how the group launders funds
Tom Wilson / Reuters :
Elliptic finds a Cambodian online market offering the crypto scam industry products and services, including money laundering and victim data, with $11B in sales
Deepfake scam services. Victim data. Electrified shackles for human trafficking. Crypto tracing firm Elliptic found …
Q&A with Meta Oversight Board co-chair Helle-Thorning Schmidt on AI deepfakes, Meta rejecting the board's decision on former Cambodian PM Hun Sen, and more
Murad Ahmed / Financial Times : X: @muradahmed X: Murad Ahmed / @muradahmed : Before her appearance at @thenextweb I spoke to Meta Oversight Board chair @HelleThorning_S about why Meta didn't back a ...
Meta rejects the Oversight Board's recommendation to suspend former Cambodian PM Hun Sen's account because doing so would “not be consistent with our policies”
but, in fairness, it's not straightforward. — Vittoria Elliott (who isn't active on Bluesky, AFAIK) has written very thoughtfully about the tradeoffs of a decision like this in Wired: www.wired.com/...
Meta's Oversight Board took 234 days to get a ruling in an incitement to violence case involving Hun Sen, revealing a problem with the board's glacial pace
Today let's talk about one of the most important cases that Meta's Oversight Board has heard to date — and how the process ultimately revealed … Threads: @crumbler . Bluesky: @zitron.bsky.social . X: ...
An excerpt from the book Number Go Up traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar using forced labor to run pig butchering Tether scams
of human trafficking. Thousands of people across Southeast Asia are lured with the promise of good jobs, then trapped and forced to scam. Zeke Faux / @zekefaux : It turns out people really do lose mil...