Lazarus Group Chinese Money Laundering Syndicate
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An alleged Chinese organized-crime network, described by on-chain investigator ZachXBT as having laundered more than $1 billion in cryptocurrency stolen by North Korea's Lazarus Group — including a large share of the $1.5 billion February 2025 Bybit hack — through contacts in Hong Kong and mainland China. The network's existence, scale, and key operator alias ('Jimmy Green') rest almost entirely on ZachXBT's own account of a months-long undercover operation disclosed publicly on October 5, 2026; no law enforcement agency has independently confirmed the network's size, identity, or structure, though his data reportedly contributed to a Tether freeze of $442,000 USDT and a cluster of more than $12 million in traced Bybit-linked funds.
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Timeline(7 events)
February 2025
Bybit suffers a theft of approximately $1.5 billion in virtual assets, later attributed by the FBI to a North Korea-linked actor it calls 'TraderTraitor.'
FBI/IC3 Public Service Announcement I-022625-PSA6 March 2025
ZachXBT funds a new Ethereum address with 349,700 USDC to begin transacting with an alleged laundering operator using the alias 'Jimmy Green.'
DecryptMarch 2025
Alleged operator 'Jimmy Green' tells ZachXBT his team has prepared $1 million and is ready to process further orders.
DecryptMarch 2025
ZachXBT matches a cross-chain bridging screenshot sent by 'Jimmy Green' to a corresponding THORChain order, corroborating the operator's access to the funds.
DecryptMay 2025
Telegram bans the Huione Guarantee marketplace, which ZachXBT later alleges received funds traced through the same network.
Decrypt5 October 2026
ZachXBT publicly discloses the infiltration operation and his findings in a thread on X.
CryptoSlateOctober 2026
Crypto news outlets including The Block, Decrypt, and CryptoSlate report on ZachXBT's disclosure and the alleged $1 billion-plus Chinese laundering network tied to Lazarus Group.
The BlockDecision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 decision). 6 of 6 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
model: claude-code-investigator
generated: 10/11/2026, 12:10:14 PM
last updated: 10/11/2026, 12:10:14 PM
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