U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro on Thursday announced charges of wire fraud conspiracy against Chinese bosses for a scam in Burma and Cambodia that targeted Americans.
Pirro said during a Scam Center Strike Force press conference that two Chinese nationals have been charged for allegedly managing a cryptocurrency investment fraud compound in Burma, then later in Cambodia, where they trafficked thousands of people, who were "enslaved, beaten, and then forced to steal from Americans for years."
"We have seized also a Telegram channel, and that channel was luring workers into a forced compound in Cambodia," Pirro said. "There, they were ordered to pose as U.S. banks, as the New York City Police Department, to steal Americans' life savings. We have taken down more than 500 websites they were used to steal Americans' life savings.
"My office is going to continue to work to identify the funds stolen. We have also restrained more than $700 million in cryptocurrency...
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