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Chen Zhi: Cyberscam Tycoon escorted to China by Beijings most prominent SWAT Team - far away from U.S. Courts

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This screenshot captured from a video released by the Criminal Investigative Department of Chinas Ministry of Public Security on Jan 8, 2026, shows Chen Zhi, who is brought to China by Beijings Blue Sword Commando Unit (蓝剑突击队), one of the most well-equipped and well-trained Special Police Units. Alleged scam tycoon Chen Zhi (陳志) , founding chairman of Cambodian conglomerate Prince Holding Group, has been arrested and extradited to China, Cambodias Interior Ministry has declared according to channelnewsasia . Chen Zhi then was presented in a video released by the Criminal Investigative Department of Chinas Ministry of Public Security on Jan 8, 2026 by Chinas state media: Handcuffed, hood over head, hood taken away - and escorted by the Blue Sword Commando Unit (蓝剑突击队), the SWAT team of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau. They may have taken him to Dongcheng District Detention Center in Beijing. These pictures were shown just days after U.S. special forces had abducte...

Prince Group, Chen Zhi: Chen Xiao'er, also known as Wu An Ming - Sanctioned by U.S. Treasury

Chen Xiao'er (陈小二) (also known by his birth name Hu Xiaowei (胡小伟) and other aliases including Wu An Ming and Hu Shi ) is a Chinese businessman and an alleged key figure in the Cambodian-based "Prince Group Transnational Criminal Organization," which has been linked to extensive cyber-scam operations, human trafficking, and money laundering. He was born in 1982 in China and is reportedly considered the "second in command" under the group's chairman, Chen Zhi. The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned Chen Xiao'er in October 2025 for his partnership in a company called Grand Legend International Asset Management Co., Ltd (大传奇国际资产管理有限公司) , which was developing a luxury resort in Palau with Chen Zhi. Investigative reporting by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) revealed that he uses multiple identities and holds citizenship from Saint Kitts and Nevis. He changed the name on...

Chen Zhi - Inside one of Asia's allegedly most sophisticated Transnational Criminal Organization. What happened

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Robert Nogacki describes it on Linkedin: "The United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York has unsealed an indictment against Chen Zhi (陳志), charging the Chinese-Cambodian businessman with orchestrating one of Asia's most sophisticated transnational criminal organizations. The indictment reveals an operation that allegedly defrauded victims globally of billions of dollars through forced-labor cryptocurrency schemes while laundering proceeds through an elaborate network of ostensibly legitimate business enterprises. Chen founded and chaired Prince Holding Group, a Cambodian conglomerate operating over one hundred business entities across more than thirty countries. While publicly presenting itself as engaged in real estate development, banking, and hospitality, federal prosecutors allege that Prince Group's core business consisted of operating forced-labor compounds throughout Cambodia executing industrial-scale "pig-butchering"...

End of Cyberscam at Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone in Laos?
And what happened to Zhao Wei?

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Picture by 柳千的账号 A new city has been erected from farmers ground in the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at the Mekong river in Bokeo province in Laos. Under the guidance of Chinese Businessman Zhao Wei it has become not only a tourism and property development but especially a hub for cyberscam and money laundering among other criminal activities. How does the government of Laos react? "Asia’s Most Conspicuous Criminal Enclave" and "Transnational crime along the Mekong" : Headlines of stories published by International Crisis Group published in 2023 and 2024. These described Kings Romans casino as an "open display of money laundering". These named Zhao Wei (Chinese: 趙偉) a crime boss, the Chinese businessman holding a 99-year licence for operations in the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone (SEZ, Chinese: 金三角经济特区) , created by the government of Laos for economic development in the northern province of Bokeo. These articles remembered, that...