{"investigation":{"slug":"doj-scam-center-strike-force-276-arrest-global-operation-may-2026","entity_name":"DOJ Scam Center Strike Force — 276-Arrest Global Operation (May 2026)","trust_score":92,"severity_base":null,"score_modifier":0,"confidence":0.85,"status":"draft","content_type":"investigation","summary":"This entry documents a real, multi-agency U.S. law-enforcement action, not a scam entity. On April 29, 2026, the Department of Justice announced that a coordinated international operation involving the FBI, Dubai Police (UAE Ministry of Interior), the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, and Royal Thai Police had resulted in at least 276 arrests and the dismantlement of nine cryptocurrency 'pig-butchering' scam centers across Southeast Asia and the Gulf. Five individuals were separately charged by federal prosecutors in San Diego. The arrests were part of a broader, ongoing DOJ Scam Center Strike Force initiative (formed November 2025) that by September 2026 had restrained roughly $938 million in cryptocurrency, charged additional defendants tied to the Shunda scam compound in Myanmar, and helped trigger Treasury/OFAC sanctions against the Xinbi Guarantee marketplace. The title's 'May 2026' framing appears to reflect secondary news coverage published in the days after the DOJ's April 29 release; the operation itself and DOJ's own announcement date to April 29, 2026. Because this is a government enforcement action corroborated by DOJ, Treasury, IRS-CI, and Secret Service press releases plus extensive Tier 1/Tier 2 news coverage, it is assessed as high-trust/verified rather than as a risk to be avoided.","sections":[{"content":"On April 29, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a coordinated international takedown of cryptocurrency 'pig-butchering' scam centers that led to at least 276 arrests and the dismantlement of at least nine scam centers. The operation was led by Dubai Police under the UAE Ministry of Interior, in partnership with the FBI and the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, with additional support from the Royal Thai Police. Of the 276 arrests, 275 individuals were apprehended by Dubai authorities and one was apprehended in Thailand. Separately, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California unsealed charges against alleged managers and recruiters: Thet Min Nyi (a Burmese national linked to the 'Ko Thet Company'), and Indonesian nationals Wiliang Awang and Andreas Chandra (linked to 'Sanduo Group'), and Lisa Mariam (linked to 'Giant Company'), with two additional co-conspirators charged as fugitives. Thet Min Nyi and a fugitive co-defendant were indicted by a federal grand jury in March 2026 on wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy charges; Awang, Chandra, and Mariam were charged by criminal complaint in April 2026 with wire fraud conspiracy. Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva stated that 'fraudsters who target Americans from overseas cannot operate with impunity, no matter where in the world they reside.'","heading":"The April 29, 2026 Coordinated Takedown (276 Arrests)","sources":[{"url":"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/coordinated-takedown-scam-centers-leads-least-276-arrests-alleged-managers-and-recruiters","name":"DOJ Office of Public Affairs — Coordinated Takedown of Scam Centers Leads to at Least 276 Arrests; Alleged Managers and Recruiters Charged in San Diego","type":"regulatory","credibility":1},{"url":"https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/police-dismantles-9-crypto-investment-scam-centers-arrests-276-suspects/","name":"Bleeping Computer — Police dismantles 9 crypto investment scam centers, arrests 276 suspects","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://thehackernews.com/2026/05/global-crackdown-arrests-276-shuts-9.html","name":"The Hacker News — Global Crackdown Arrests 276, Shuts 9 Crypto Scam Centers, Seizes $701M","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.foxnews.com/tech/global-scam-crackdown-leads-276-arrests","name":"Fox News — DOJ, FBI arrest 276 in international crypto scam center crackdown","type":"news_article","credibility":2}],"severity":"low"},{"content":"Six days before the 276-arrest announcement, on April 23, 2026, the DOJ's Scam Center Strike Force announced a separate but related set of actions. Criminal complaints were unsealed against two Chinese nationals, Huang Xingshan (alias 'Ah Zhe') and Jiang Wen Jie (alias 'Jiang Nan'), for allegedly running cryptocurrency investment fraud operations out of the Shunda scam compound in Min Let Pan, Burma (Myanmar). According to the complaint, Huang served as a high-level manager and enforcer who allegedly participated in physical punishment of trafficked compound workers, while Jiang served as a team leader supervising workers targeting American victims; under Jiang's alleged supervision, one worker defrauded a single American victim of more than $3 million. The Shunda compound is alleged to have operated from approximately January 2025 until it was seized by the Karen National Liberation Army in approximately November 2025. The same announcement disclosed that more than $701,962,392.15 in cryptocurrency had been identified as allegedly tied to laundering victim funds and restrained through cooperation with cryptocurrency service providers, along with the seizure of a Telegram recruitment channel with over 6,000 followers and 503 fraudulent investment website domains identified through the DOJ's 'Operation Level Up' initiative.","heading":"Related Charges: Shunda Compound (Myanmar) and Scam Center Strike Force Actions of April 23, 2026","sources":[{"url":"https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/scam-center-strike-force-takes-major-actions-against-southeast-asian-scam-centers","name":"DOJ (District of Columbia U.S. Attorney's Office) — Scam Center Strike Force Takes Major Actions Against Southeast Asian Scam Centers Targeting Americans","type":"regulatory","credibility":1},{"url":"https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-charges-2-chinese-nationals-allegedly-ran-overseas-cryptocurrency-scam-center-targeting-americans","name":"Fox News — DOJ charges 2 Chinese nationals who allegedly ran overseas cryptocurrency scam center targeting Americans","type":"news_article","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/asian-scam-centers-crypto-fraud-april-2026/","name":"Chainalysis — U.S. Crackdown on Southeast Asian Crypto Scam Centers","type":"research","credibility":2}],"severity":"low"},{"content":"The 276-arrest operation and the Shunda compound charges were both components of the DOJ's Scam Center Strike Force, an interagency task force combining the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, DOJ's Criminal Division, the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service, and IRS Criminal Investigation, established in November 2025 under U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro to centralize enforcement against offshore 'pig-butchering' and confidence-scam operations run by Chinese transnational criminal organizations. In February 2026, the Strike Force announced that cumulative cryptocurrency seizures and freezes had topped $580 million. By September 9, 2026, following a coordinated action that seized two cryptocurrency wallets (holding roughly $12 million), Telegram channels hosting an illicit marketplace, and more than 3,200 electronic devices from scam compounds in Madagascar (with roughly 30 Chinese scam-compound leaders arrested and repatriated to China), the Strike Force's cumulative total of restrained cryptocurrency reached approximately $938 million, including $52 million restrained in a single day on September 7, 2026. Pirro described the scale of the threat, stating: 'If Chinese organized crime can buy a custom website and a money laundering service the way you order takeout, then every American with a retirement account is in the blast radius.'","heading":"Broader Scam Center Strike Force Initiative and Cumulative Financial Seizures","sources":[{"url":"https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/dc-scam-center-strike-force-seizures-of-cryptocurrency-from-chinese-transnational-criminals-tops-580-million","name":"IRS Criminal Investigation — D.C. 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OFAC stated Xinbi Guarantee had processed the equivalent of over $24 billion in digital assets and fiat currency since around 2022 by connecting criminal syndicates with vendors of money-laundering and technology services. OFAC simultaneously designated two supporting entities: Anwen Technology Co., Ltd. (Cambodia-based developer of the XinbiPay/NewPay wallet) and SafeW Technology Co., Ltd. (Singapore-based developer of an encrypted messaging app used by the marketplace). The action was coordinated with the DOJ Scam Center Strike Force, which the same day seized infrastructure and digital-asset wallets used by Xinbi Guarantee, and followed a related March 26, 2026 sanctions action by the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office against Xinbi. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that 'scam centers in Southeast Asia steal billions of dollars from American victims each year.'","heading":"Treasury/OFAC Sanctions Against Xinbi Guarantee (September 2026)","sources":[{"url":"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0624","name":"U.S. Department of the Treasury — Treasury Cracks Down on Transnational Criminal Organization Behind Cyber Scam Operations Targeting Americans","type":"regulatory","credibility":1},{"url":"https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/the-us-sanctions-xinbi-one-of-southeast-asias-largest-illicit-crypto-marketplaces","name":"TRM Labs — The US Sanctions Xinbi, One of Southeast Asia's Largest Illicit Crypto Marketplaces","type":"research","credibility":2},{"url":"https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/ofac-sanctions-xinbi-cybercriminal-crypto-marketplace/","name":"Chainalysis — US Sanctions Xinbi, Asia's Multibillion-Dollar Cybercriminal Marketplace","type":"research","credibility":2}],"severity":"low"},{"content":"Multiple DOJ press releases and news reports describe the scam centers targeted by these operations, including the Shunda compound in Myanmar and compounds in Cambodia and Madagascar, as allegedly staffed in part by trafficked workers held against their will and coerced — under threat of violence — into carrying out romance/investment ('pig-butchering') fraud against American victims. DOJ alleged that Huang Xingshan personally participated in physical punishment of trafficked compound workers at Shunda. These trafficking allegations are described in DOJ charging documents and corroborated by multiple news outlets, but as with any criminal complaint, the specific allegations against named individuals remain unproven pending trial.","heading":"Alleged Forced Labor and Human Trafficking at Scam Compounds","sources":[{"url":"https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/scam-center-strike-force-takes-major-actions-against-southeast-asian-scam-centers","name":"DOJ (District of Columbia U.S. Attorney's Office) — Scam Center Strike Force Takes Major Actions Against Southeast Asian Scam Centers Targeting Americans","type":"regulatory","credibility":1},{"url":"https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/police-dismantles-9-crypto-investment-scam-centers-arrests-276-suspects/","name":"Bleeping Computer — Police dismantles 9 crypto investment scam centers, arrests 276 suspects","type":"news_article","credibility":2}],"severity":"high"},{"content":"The entity title supplied for this investigation references a 'May 2026' operation. Based on DOJ's own press release dateline, the 276-arrest announcement was issued Wednesday, April 29, 2026, not May 2026. Some secondary outlets (e.g., Breitbart, WFMD) republished or dated their coverage in the first days of May 2026, which likely accounts for the discrepancy. The underlying facts — 276 arrests, nine scam centers dismantled, five defendants charged in San Diego — are consistent across DOJ's own release and independent news coverage regardless of the exact publication date used by secondary sources.","heading":"Note on Title Accuracy","sources":[{"url":"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/coordinated-takedown-scam-centers-leads-least-276-arrests-alleged-managers-and-recruiters","name":"DOJ Office of Public Affairs — Coordinated Takedown of Scam Centers Leads to at Least 276 Arrests; Alleged Managers and Recruiters Charged in San Diego","type":"regulatory","credibility":1},{"url":"https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2026/05/08/doj-international-takedown-of-cryptocurrency-scam-centers-nets-276-arrests/","name":"Breitbart — DOJ: International Takedown of Crypto Scam Centers Nets 276 Arrests","type":"news_article","credibility":2}],"severity":"low"}],"timeline":[{"date":"2025-11","event":"DOJ, alongside the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, IRS Criminal Investigation, and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, launches the Scam Center Strike Force to combat Southeast Asian cryptocurrency investment fraud ('pig-butchering') operations.","source":"Ballard Spahr client alert","source_url":"https://www.ballardspahr.com/insights/alerts-and-articles/2025/11/us-government-launches-inter-agency-effort-to-combat-online-cryptocurrency-fraud-schemes"},{"date":"2026-02","event":"DOJ Scam Center Strike Force announces cumulative cryptocurrency seizures and freezes have topped $580 million.","source":"IRS Criminal Investigation","source_url":"https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/dc-scam-center-strike-force-seizures-of-cryptocurrency-from-chinese-transnational-criminals-tops-580-million"},{"date":"2026-03-26","event":"The UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office sanctions the Xinbi Guarantee marketplace.","source":"U.S. Department of the Treasury press release","source_url":"https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0624","date_evidence":"the United Kingdom's Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office's (FCDO) March 26, 2026 sanctions action against Xinbi"},{"date":"2026-03","event":"A federal grand jury in the Southern District of California indicts Thet Min Nyi and a fugitive co-defendant on wire fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy charges tied to the 'Ko Thet Company' scam operation.","source":"DOJ Office of Public Affairs","source_url":"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/coordinated-takedown-scam-centers-leads-least-276-arrests-alleged-managers-and-recruiters"},{"date":"2026-04","event":"Criminal complaints are filed in the Southern District of California charging Wiliang Awang, Andreas Chandra, a fugitive co-defendant, and Lisa Mariam with wire fraud conspiracy.","source":"DOJ Office of Public Affairs","source_url":"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/coordinated-takedown-scam-centers-leads-least-276-arrests-alleged-managers-and-recruiters"},{"date":"2026-04-23","event":"Scam Center Strike Force unseals charges against Huang Xingshan and Jiang Wen Jie for allegedly running the Shunda scam compound in Myanmar; announces restraint of over $701.9 million in cryptocurrency, seizure of a Telegram recruitment channel, and seizure of 503 fraudulent investment websites under Operation Level Up.","source":"DOJ (District of Columbia U.S. Attorney's Office)","source_url":"https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/scam-center-strike-force-takes-major-actions-against-southeast-asian-scam-centers","date_evidence":"Thursday, April 23, 2026"},{"date":"2026-04-29","event":"DOJ announces a coordinated international takedown resulting in at least 276 arrests and the dismantlement of nine crypto scam centers, led by Dubai Police, the FBI, and Chinese Ministry of Public Security; five individuals charged in San Diego.","source":"DOJ Office of Public Affairs","source_url":"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/coordinated-takedown-scam-centers-leads-least-276-arrests-alleged-managers-and-recruiters","date_evidence":"Wednesday, April 29, 2026"},{"date":"2026-05","event":"Secondary news coverage of the 276-arrest operation is published/republished by outlets including Breitbart and local radio affiliates, contributing to the operation being popularly referenced as a 'May 2026' action.","source":"Breitbart","source_url":"https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2026/05/08/doj-international-takedown-of-cryptocurrency-scam-centers-nets-276-arrests/","date_original":"2026-05-08"},{"date":"2026-09","event":"Scam Center Strike Force restrains approximately $52 million in cryptocurrency in a single coordinated action.","source":"U.S. Secret Service","source_url":"https://www.secretservice.gov/newsroom/releases/2026/09/scam-center-strike-force-conducts-seizures-chinese-run-illicit-scammer","date_original":"2026-09-07"},{"date":"2026-09-09","event":"OFAC sanctions Xinbi Guarantee and two supporting entities (Anwen Technology, SafeW Technology); 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