Source Library
The evidentiary foundation behind every dispatch: court filings, sanctions notices, regulatory actions, and NGO investigations. If we cite it, it lives here.
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 ↗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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