Source Library
The evidentiary foundation behind every dispatch: court filings, sanctions notices, regulatory actions, and NGO investigations. If we cite it, it lives here.
Criminal Complaint 2026CM000286: State v. Circle Internet Financial LLC
Misdemeanor contempt-of-court complaint alleging the USDC issuer disobeyed an order to recover a scam victim's frozen stablecoins.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗DOJ SDNY: CFO pleads guilty to conspiracy to launder $67 million in fraud proceeds
Guilty plea of the former Epoch Times CFO: crime proceeds bought at 70 to 80 cents on the dollar via gift and prepaid cards, washed as fake donations.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗Operation First Light 2026: over 5,800 arrests, USD 293 million intercepted
Results release for the 97-jurisdiction anti-fraud operation: 142,000+ victims identified, 31,014 accounts blocked, I-GRIP stop-payments on fiat and virtual assets.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗Cyber Scam Hubs and Human Trafficking Report 2026
FATF-style regional body maps the compound economy to Special Economic Zones and documents the pandemic-era casino-to-compound conversion.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗Crypto giant Circle rebuffed efforts to help scam victims, police say
Coin Laundry investigation documenting prosecutor complaints in Wisconsin and New York over the USDC issuer's response to freeze and recovery orders.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗China repatriates 307 nationals from Myanmar scam hub
Report on the continuing Myawaddy clearance transfers of Chinese nationals out of compound zones.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗239 Chinese nationals transferred over online scam links
State media count of the remaining pipeline: 920 foreign nationals awaiting transfer, 709 prosecuted. Treated as a floor, not a census.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗Imigrasi tangkal seumur hidup 92 WNA sindikat judol di Batam
Indonesian state news agency report, quoting the Directorate General of Immigration, on the deportation and lifetime bans of 92 Chinese nationals.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗Indonesia deports 92 Chinese nationals over alleged scam operation
English-language confirmation of the Batam deportations, with official quotes on the handover to China's Ministry of Public Security.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗APG: New report exposes the links between cyber scam hubs and human trafficking
Official release announcing the 2026 report, with Executive Secretary and Co-Chair statements on indicators and regional cooperation.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗Scam Center Strike Force: Major Actions Against Southeast Asian Scam Centers
Criminal charges against two compound managers; ~$700M restrained; 503 fraud websites and a trafficking-recruitment Telegram channel seized.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗Written testimony of Erin West, founder of Operation Shamrock, on pig-butchering fraud
Sworn testimony from the career prosecutor who founded the cross-industry coalition: the anatomy of the scam-compound economy and the recovery and victim-services response it demands.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗Operation Shamrock: cross-industry coalition against the scam-compound economy
The first and largest information-sharing coalition against transnational organized crime in Southeast Asia, organized across tech, law enforcement, banking, foreign policy, and victim services.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗Imposing Sanctions on Online Scam Centers in Southeast Asia (Kok An network)
Designation of Cambodian Senator Kok An and 28 associated individuals and entities operating and profiting from scam compounds.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗UK sanctions on '#8 Park' operators and the Xinbi marketplace
Designations targeting the operator of a compound with reported 20,000-worker capacity and a major illicit crypto marketplace serving scam centres.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗UN report on trafficking into cyber-scam operations
300,000+ people from 66 countries forced into scam operations; Mekong-region industry estimated at $43.8 billion per year.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗Designation of DKBA and companies linked to Burma scam centers
Burma armed group, four senior leaders, and Thailand-based front companies behind the Tai Chang compound near Myawaddy.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗Final rule: Huione Group: Section 311 special measure five
Prohibits U.S. correspondent accounts for the Cambodia-based Huione Group, found to be of primary money laundering concern.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗Prince Group TCO designation: 146 targets
Largest coordinated U.S.–UK action against the compound economy's financial infrastructure; $15B bitcoin seizure from chairman Chen Zhi.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗'I was someone else's property': slavery, trafficking and torture in Cambodia's scamming compounds
18-month investigation documenting abuses across at least 53 compounds and a pattern of state acquiescence.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗Politically connected crypto project pursued resort with alleged scam syndicate figures
Investigation linking three later-sanctioned individuals to a Timor-Leste resort project; an early jurisdiction-spillover indicator.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗Zhao Wei Transnational Criminal Organization designation
Foundational designation of the network controlling the Golden Triangle SEZ and Kings Romans Casino in Laos.
VIEW ORIGINAL ↗Hundreds of thousands trafficked into online criminality across Southeast Asia
Foundational UN estimate: at least 120,000 people in Myanmar and 100,000 in Cambodia may be held in forced scam labour.
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