00:00The U.S. and U.K. have taken their largest legal action yet against cybercrime centers
00:05in Southeast Asia.
00:06U.S. officials have sanctioned over 100 targets linked to the Cambodia-based company Prince
00:11Group for their alleged role in fraud, money laundering and modern-day slavery.
00:16Prosecutors also moved to seize more than US$14 billion in Bitcoin, which they say are
00:22illegal profits from crypto scams known as pig butchering.
00:26Crime centers often employ abducted foreign nationals including Chinese and Indians who
00:30are forced to work in slave-like conditions.
00:33The U.S. has also sanctioned a related company for allegedly laundering some of these profits
00:38to North Korea.
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