Nam giới Trung Quốc bị dẫn độ về Mỹ vì vụ gian lận tiền điện tử 36,9 triệu USD

The Huoxing Finance report states that on October 24, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that on October 23, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California stated that Zheng Zhao, a 44-year-old Chinese national, was extradited from the Netherlands to the United States for allegedly participating in a transnational cryptocurrency investment fraud scheme targeting U.S. citizens and made his initial court appearance that day. Zheng Zhao has been ordered detained and is scheduled to appear in court again on November 30. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison. According to court documents, this fraud network operated from a scam center in Cambodia, contacting U.S. victims through social media, phone calls, text messages, and dating platforms. The perpetrators deceived victims by using counterfeit websites mimicking legitimate cryptocurrency trading platforms to induce investments, falsely claiming that investments would continuously appreciate. The illicit funds were then laundered through U.S. shell companies, international bank accounts, and digital asset wallets. Investigations revealed that over $36.9 million in victim funds were transferred from bank accounts controlled by the network to a single account at Deltec Bank in the Bahamas. Zheng Zhao and his co-conspirators arranged for the funds to be exchanged into USDT and transferred to digital asset wallets controlled by Cambodia-based entities, ultimately distributed to the operators of scam centers in Cambodia and surrounding regions. The scam involved at least 174 confirmed U.S. victims. So far, eight co-conspirators have pleaded guilty. The U.S. Department of Justice emphasized that criminal charges do not imply guilt, and Zheng Zhao is presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.