The US and UK jointly crack down on Southeast Asian online fraud: sanctions on Prince Group and severing Huione's financial access to the US.

PANews reported on October 14th that the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), along with the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO), have launched their largest-ever action against a Southeast Asian cyber fraud ring, sanctioning Chen Zhi, the TCO of Cambodia's Prince Group , and severing Huione Group's access to the U.S. financial system. FinCEN issued a final rule under Section 311 of the Patriot Act, alleging that Huione laundered approximately $ 4 billion from August 2021 to January 2025 , including approximately $ 37 million in DPRK -related virtual currencies and approximately $ 36 million in investment scams. The U.S. also indicted Chen Zhi , freezing U.S. assets of the entities implicated (including Prince Holding Group , Prince Bank , and Jin Bei Group ) and prohibiting related transactions.

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