Trung Nguyen Van
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Trung Nguyen Van is a 37-year-old Vietnamese national charged on September 25, 2026 with two counts of money laundering in the Western District of Missouri. Prosecutors allege wallets attributed to Van received approximately $53.3 million from wire-fraud schemes targeting U.S. citizens between 2018 and 2024, with at least $24 million traced to confirmed pig butchering operations. The charges remain at the complaint stage; no conviction or guilty plea has been entered as of the date of this report.
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Timeline(7 events)
9 February 2018
Earliest date from which wallets attributed to Van are alleged to have received fraud-linked cryptocurrency, per the DOJ complaint.
DOJ Western District of Missouri press release1 June 2024
Primary victim begins transferring cryptocurrency to the fraudulent Triangle platform, believing the funds to be a legitimate investment. Approximate start date per DOJ complaint.
KCTV5 / DOJ7 August 2024
Investigators trace approximately $569,000 from the primary victim to a wallet attributed to Van.
FinCrime Central / DOJ complaint9 August 2024
Six additional victim-linked transfers totaling approximately $569,569 arrive at Van's attributed wallet. Van allegedly moves approximately $567,999 in four transactions to a private unhosted wallet.
DOJ Western District of Missouri press release31 August 2024
Approximate end of primary victim's transfers to Triangle platform, totaling roughly $16 million over the June–August 2024 period.
KCTV5 / DOJ17 December 2024
Latest date of wallet activity cited in the DOJ complaint; wallets attributed to Van received approximately $53.3 million total between February 2018 and this date.
NewsBTC / DOJ complaint25 September 2026
DOJ unseals criminal complaint; U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Missouri announces two money-laundering charges against Trung Nguyen Van. Initial court appearance in Los Angeles.
DOJ Western District of Missouri press releaseDecision Log
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This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain (1 event). 8 of 8 cited source URLs have an Internet Archive snapshot.
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generated: 10/3/2026, 12:13:38 PM
last updated: 10/4/2026, 10:22:36 AM
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