{"id":74806,"date":"2025-10-17T14:45:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/17\/chen-zhi-prince-group-cambodia-cyber-crime-sanctioned"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:45:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T05:45:38","slug":"who-are-chen-zhi-and-the-prince-group-accused-by-the-us-and-uk-of-large-scale-scam-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74806","title":{"rendered":"Who are Chen Zhi and the Prince Group, accused by the US and UK of large-scale scam operations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US treasury department has sanctioned Chinese-born Cambodian tycoon Chen Zhi \u2013 alleged mastermind of a cyber-crime empire in south-east Asia<\/p>\n<p>The UK and the United States have sanctioned a multinational network based in south-east Asia accused of running large-scale online scam operations that are suspected of using trafficked workers to defraud people around the world.<\/p>\n<p>The industry has flourished in recent years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2025\/sep\/08\/myanmar-military-junta-scam-centres-trafficking-crime-syndicates-kk-park\">especially in parts of Cambodia and Myanmar<\/a> where hundreds of thousands of people have been duped by false job adverts and then forced to commit online fraud, including through romance scams, sometimes under the threat of torture.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/17\/chen-zhi-prince-group-cambodia-cyber-crime-sanctioned\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US treasury department has sanctioned Chinese-born Cambodian tycoon Chen Zhi \u2013 alleged mastermind of a cyber-crime empire in south-east AsiaThe UK and the United States have sanctioned a multinational network based in south-east Asia accused of running&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[361,82,3265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cambodia","category-myanmar","category-scams"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74807,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74806\/revisions\/74807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}