U.S. Targets Cambodian Pig Butchering, Takes $14B in Bitcoin as Biggest Ever Seizure

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U.S. authorities dropped a legal hammer on global firm Prince Group as an operator of forced-labor global scam operations — including infamous pig butchering schemes — based in Cambodia, indicting the company’s leader and imposing sanctions.

UK and Cambodian national Chen Zhi, the founder and chairman of Prince Group, was…

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