DOJ Pig-Butchering Seizure — Southeast Asia Networks (July 2026)
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On July 21, 2026, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia filed five civil forfeiture complaints targeting more than $25 million in Tether (USDT) linked to pig-butchering scam networks operating from compounds in Southeast Asia. The July action was one component of a broader 2026 enforcement campaign — the Scam Center Strike Force — that by mid-year had frozen and seized over $800 million in cryptocurrency traced to Chinese transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) running forced-labor scam factories in Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, and Laos.
Connected Entities
7 entities · 60 linked investigations- Daren Li→mentioned with→Tether(60%)
- DOJ Pig-Butchering Seizure — Southeast Asia Networks (July 2026)→mentioned with→Kok An / Crown Resorts / Anco Brothers(85%)
- Daren Li→mentioned with→Kok An / Crown Resorts / Anco Brothers(75%)
- DOJ Pig-Butchering Seizure — Southeast Asia Networks (July 2026)→mentioned with→Huang Xingshan(80%)
- DOJ Pig-Butchering Seizure — Southeast Asia Networks (July 2026)→mentioned with→Jiang Wen Jie(80%)
- DOJ Pig-Butchering Seizure — Southeast Asia Networks (July 2026)→mentioned with→Daren Li(80%)
- Huang Xingshan→mentioned with→Jiang Wen Jie(80%)
- Jiang Wen Jie→mentioned with→Huang Xingshan(80%)
- DOJ Pig-Butchering Seizure — Southeast Asia Networks (July 2026)→mentioned with→Tether(70%)
- DOJ Pig-Butchering Seizure — Southeast Asia Networks (July 2026)→mentioned with→Coinbase(70%)
Connected Through
6 shared actors · 323 investigationsDistinct actors this investigation shares with others — holders, traders, and named parties. Shared infrastructure (exchanges, pools) is excluded.
- ♦Coinbasetoken
- □Tetherorganization
- □Jiang Wen Jieorganization
- □Huang Xingshanorganizationalso inDOJ Global Pig Butchering Takedown — Ko Thet / Sanduo / Giant Company·0Courier-Based Pig Butchering Scam Network (FBI Warning June 2026)·0Ko Thet Company / Sanduo Group / Giant Company Pig-Butchering Network·0Ko Thet Company / Sanduo Group / Giant Company·0DOJ Scam Center Strike Force / Southeast Asia Pig Butchering Network·0
Timeline(11 events)
2024
FBI and U.S. Secret Service launch Operation Level Up to proactively notify active pig-butchering victims.
FBI Operation Level Up pageNovember 2025
DOJ establishes the Scam Center Strike Force, a multi-agency unit targeting Chinese TCOs running scam compounds in Southeast Asia.
DOJ USAO-DC press releaseNovember 2025
Karen National Liberation Army seizes the Shunda compound in Min Let Pan, Burma; investigators later recover 8,000 phones and 1,500 computers. Compound operators Huang Xingshan and Jiang Wen Jie relocate to Cambodia.
DOJ Office of Public Affairs press release (April 23, 2026)December 2025
Daren Li, having pleaded guilty in a U.S. federal case to laundering $73.6 million in pig-butchering proceeds, removes his electronic ankle monitor and flees the United States, becoming a fugitive.
CoinDesk (February 10, 2026)10 February 2026
A California federal court sentences Daren Li in absentia to 20 years in prison for laundering at least $73.6 million in pig-butchering proceeds through U.S.-based shell companies.
CoinDesk26 February 2026
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro announces cumulative Strike Force seizures and freezes have exceeded $580 million.
IRS Criminal Investigation press release27 February 2026
DOJ announces seizure of approximately $61 million in Tether (USDT) linked to pig-butchering scam operations, with Tether credited for cooperation.
The Hacker News23 April 2026
DOJ, OFAC, FBI, and State Department execute a coordinated multi-agency action: criminal complaints unsealed against Huang Xingshan and Jiang Wen Jie for the Shunda compound; OFAC sanctions Cambodian Senator Kok An and 28 associated individuals and entities; 503 fraudulent cryptocurrency domains seized; a Telegram trafficking recruitment channel shut down; and the State Department announces a $10 million reward for Tai Chang compound information.
DOJ Office of Public Affairs; U.S. Treasury OFAC18 May 2026
DOJ Disruption Week begins, involving voluntary cooperation from Apple, Coinbase, Google, Meta, Microsoft, SpaceX/Starlink, TRM Labs, and others to disable over 1.4 million scam-related accounts and infrastructure.
The Hacker News (June 4, 2026)4 June 2026
DOJ announces the results of Disruption Week: $3.8 million in cryptocurrency frozen by private sector partners (Coinbase alone: $3 million), 1.4 million accounts disrupted, 20,000 Microsoft accounts disabled, and 7 arrests by Thai police.
The Hacker News21 July 2026
U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia files five civil forfeiture complaints targeting over $25 million in Tether (USDT) across five fraud categories: fake investment platforms (~$10.4M), romance scams (~$12.09M), Zoomex domain spoofing (~$2.39M), MicMarkets fake platform (~$1.77M), and a two-stage recovery scam (~$284,900). No individual defendants are named.
DOJ USAO-DC; CryptoTimes; Crypto BriefingDecision Log
- slot 443503126 · hash HvXLy9pE91LKNWF74fYGtkRm4yHo4JkvndxMCPQcbhsJ
This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 decision). 29 of 30 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-sonnet-4-6
generated: 7/31/2026, 5:18:06 PM
last updated: 7/31/2026, 5:18:07 PM
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