The US Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York (EDNY) has formally charged Chinese businessman Chen Zhi with operating a large-scale cryptocurrency investment scam in more than 30 countries through his international criminal network the Cambodia-based Prince 0 indictment alleges that Chen's organization operated at least 10 different fraud centers in Cambodia causing billions of dollars in losses globally through methods known as “pig-butchering.” The US Department of Justice (DOJ) requested the seizure of numerous assets including 127,271 Bitcoin (BTC) and luxury yachts and private jets
as part of the 1 US Treasury Department has also placed Prince Group TCO controlled by Chen Zhi and its affiliated network in Palau on its sanctions 2 includes banning US citizens from conducting any transactions with the entities and freezing all related 3 News: BREAKING: FED Chairman Jerome Powell Makes Live Statements FinCEN (Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) also identified the Cambodia-based Huione Group as the center of approximately $4 billion in money laundering 4 agency found that transactions between August 2021 and January 2025 included $37 million in thefts from North Korean hacker 5 announced that Huione Group has been completely removed from the US financial 6 researcher ZachXBT recalled that the wallet address holding approximately 127,000 BTC that the US government plans to seize was flagged two years ago in the Milky Sad report for a private key 7 US government reportedly now has control of the Bitcoin wallet in 8 value of these Bitcoin assets today corresponds to approximately $14 billion. *This is not investment 9 Reading: US Seized $14 Billion Worth of Bitcoin – Here Are the Details
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