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U.S. initiative launched by the Trump administration to investigate fraud centers in Southeast Asia.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
Trung Nguyen Van faces a US money-laundering charge over crypto wallets that the DOJ says took in $53 million from fraud between 2018 and 2024. The trail was still good enough to charge him years later, and the department's own figures show the wallets forwarded nearly all of the money.
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The two sides will run parallel investigations and settle between themselves who charges whom. The last multi-country operation of this kind froze $3.8 million, most of it by one exchange's compliance desk.
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OFAC listed the Xinbi marketplace and two software developers on September 9, with 52 TRON addresses that Chainalysis says received more than $8.4bn in stablecoins against Treasury's $24bn count for the platform.
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American and British prosecutors have agreed to decide between themselves where scam-center cases get charged, and an industry disruption event in October will show who outside government is expected to act on that timetable.
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The memorandum signed Thursday commits both agencies to an in-person disruption event with private industry partners, hosted by the National Crime Agency in London in early October, on cases they had already found overlapping.
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Foreign Affairs puts the annual take near $1 trillion and says two-thirds of counterfeit seizures worldwide trace to China or Hong Kong. That is a counterparty problem, not a compliance checkbox.
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