Chinese-Cambodian crime boss Chen Zhi, who has been sanctioned by the US and UK and is wanted by US authorities, is now known to have once lived in Taiwan and entered the country at least 10 times. That's according to a local media report from the Central News Agency.
00:00The head of a Cambodian scam network that's been hit with new U.S. and U.K. sanctions once lived in Taiwan and entered the country at least 10 times.
00:09That's according to a report from Taiwan's Central News Agency.
00:13China-born Chen Zhi is chair of the Prince Group, which is accused of luring workers into its scam centers with fake job ads,
00:20holding them captive and torturing them unless they help defraud victims online in what are known as pig butchering scams.
00:26The 37-year-old Chen is among people targeted by U.S. and U.K. sanctions against Southeast Asian scam rings.
00:34The crackdown has included the seizure of more than 14 billion U.S. dollars worth of Bitcoin
00:38and a U.S. indictment of Chen that could see him serve 40 years in prison.
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