Cambodia’s arrest of alleged scam center kingpin Chen Zhi and his extradition to China was “not the end” of the Southeast Asian nation’s battle to stamp out transborder crimes, its foreign minister said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/14/asia-pacific/crime-legal/cambodia-crackdown-scam-mastermind/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #myanmar #cambodia #forcedlabor #fraud #organizedcrime
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this story about Benjamin Mauerberger, a south african #crypto bro and card carrying member of the chinese #mafia who made so much money via #pigbutchering and other crypto scams that he managed to co-opt a large part of #Thailand's government (to say nothing of #Cambodia and #Myanmar) is nuts.
if you’re wondering about the dark forces driving the current war between thailand and cambodia, this is one of those forces.
#sapol #southafrica #whaleHunting #triads #organizedcrime #ChineseMafia #pigbutchering #ASEAN #scams #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #princeGroup #huione
China is moving against the cyberscam tycoons making fortunes in Southeast Asia, driven by mounting public pressure and Beijing’s desire to keep control of judicial processes, analysts say. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/01/09/asia-pacific/crime-legal/china-southeast-asia-scam-crackdown/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #china #fraud #organizedcrime #myanmar #cambodia
this story about Benjamin Mauerberger, a south african #crypto bro and card carrying member of the chinese #mafia who made so much money via #pigbutchering and other crypto scams that he managed to co-opt a large part of #Thailand's government (to say nothing of #Cambodia and #Myanmar) is nuts.
if you’re wondering about the dark forces driving the current war between thailand and cambodia, this is one of those forces.
#sapol #southafrica #whaleHunting #triads #organizedcrime #ChineseMafia #pigbutchering #ASEAN #scams #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #princeGroup #huione
The four suspected masterminds behind a series of robberies in the Tokyo metropolitan area last year purchased X accounts multiple times to recruit people for "dark" part-time jobs, investigative sources said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/08/japan/crime-legal/masterminds-tokyo-robberies-x/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #organizedcrime #fraud #theft #yamibaito #gangs
The U.S. will “very soon” start taking action to stop suspected Venezuelan drug traffickers on land, President Donald Trump said Thursday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/28/world/us-venezuela-land-action-soon/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #us #donaldtrump #venezuela #gangs #organizedcrime #drugs
A declared military crackdown has left some destruction at a major scam compound in Myanmar, satellite images show, but most buildings are still standing in pictures taken up to Sunday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/11/asia-pacific/crime-legal/myanmar-scam-centers-standing/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #myanmar #organizedcrime #gangs #fraud
Myanmar's military said it was demolishing nearly 150 buildings in a crackdown on a notorious internet scam compound bordering Thailand. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/09/asia-pacific/crime-legal/myanmar-junta-scam-buildings/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #myanmar #fraud #organizedcrime #forcedlabor #starlink #thailand #southeastasia
Recent raids on one of Myanmar's most notorious internet scam hubs sparked a recruitment rush as fleeing workers scrambled to enlist at nearby fraud factories, experts and insiders said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/05/asia-pacific/crime-legal/myanmar-scam-hub-recruitment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #thailand #myanmar #organizedcrime #fraud #gangs
Businessman Chen Zhi worked meticulously to cultivate an image of legitimacy and even philanthropy. That is now unraveling, after the U.S. and U.K. accused him of running a transnational criminal ring. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/03/world/crime-legal/how-kingpin-empire-cambodia-london/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #organizedcrime #fraud #cambodia #london #princegroup #china #chenzhi #singapore
Petty criminals rather than professionals from the world of organized crime executed the daytime robbery of historical jewels worth $102 million from the Louvre museum last month, the Paris prosecutor said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/03/world/crime-legal/louvre-heist-not-organized-crime/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #paris #france #louvre #theft #organizedcrime
Legal experts aren't surprised the U.S. government chose not to use the term "prisoners of war" to describe two survivors of an attack on a vessel last week by the U.S. military. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/21/world/crime-legal/trump-drug-war-prisoners-legal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #drugs #caribbean #organizedcrime #smuggling #venezuela #southamerica #latinamerica #us #donaldtrump #republicans #humanrights
U.S. and U.K. authorities unveiled sanctions against a British-Cambodian tycoon accused of running cyberscam operations where workers, some trafficked, carry out transnational fraud schemes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/16/asia-pacific/crime-legal/cambodia-prince-us-uk-sanctions/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #cambodia #fraud #us #uk #organizedcrime #forcedlabor #humantrafficking
The U.S. has charged in absentia the chairman of Cambodian conglomerate Prince Group with running a "sprawling cyber fraud empire” that led to the seizure of bitcoin worth about $15 billion. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/15/world/crime-legal/us-bitcoin-cambodian-cyber-fraud/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #cambodia #cybercrime #bitcoin #us #fraud #organizedcrime #romancescams
Fraud factories in Myanmar blamed for scamming Chinese and American victims out of billions of dollars are still in business and bigger than ever, an investigation reveals. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/14/asia-pacific/crime-legal/myanmar-scam-musk-starlink/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #myanmar #southeastasia #elonmusk #starlink #china #organizedcrime #fraud #romancescams
A growing number of women are being drawn by international criminal networks into Albania from impoverished countries on the promise of lucrative sex work and a potential gateway to Europe. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/07/world/crime-legal/women-albania-sex-trade/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #sexcrimes #prostitution #pornography #albania #organizedcrime #humantrafficking
Amid the rapid rise in Okinawa's youths abusing what's known as "laughing gas vape", the health ministry formally designated a substance found inside the drug called etomidate as a prohibited substance. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/22/japan/okinawa-youth-drug-abuse/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #okinawa #drugs #japanesepolice #gangs #organizedcrime
Police in Fukuoka Prefecture transported six members of the "JP Dragon" crime ring from the Philippines to Japan and arrested them for their alleged involvement in special fraud. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/11/japan/crime-legal/jp-dragon-crime-ring-members-arrested/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #organizedcrime
But, under the Trump-Bondi regime, the DoJ office that administers the program, the Office for Victims of Crime, announced in July that it will not fund VOCA grants to any state that does not "give access to DHS agents, or honor DHS requests [,or] provide requested notice to DHS agents". 9/
@heidilifeldman A Congress free from crooks would already have initiated emergency impeachment procedures against the wholly brazenly, illegally, anti-constitutionally & traitorously & incessantly power-abusing Trump "administration" (furtherance) of criminal anti-American acts.
The Johnson gang's White House crime-tolerance is not only telling, it's incriminating.
#RuleOfLaw#RINOs#TrumpRegime#OrganizedCrime#Racketeering #MafiaState#Coercion#Extortion#Robbery#Embezzlement#CriminalNetwork#Pathocracy #Insurrectionists#Rebels#Subverters#EnemiesOfTheLaw#EnemiesOfTheConstitution#EnemiesOfJustice#EnemiesOfDemocracy#EnemiesOfTheState#PutinsAssets#ServingPutin#ServingRussia#RaiseYourVoice #UnitedInDiversity#StrongerTogether#USPol#USPolitics