WASHINGTON D.C April 24, 2026 — U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro for the District of Columbia announced today that the Department of Justice’s Scam Center Strike Force has taken sweeping enforcement actions against Chinese-led criminal organizations operating forced-labor scam compounds in Myanmar (Burma) and Cambodia.
The operations have defrauded American victims of billions of dollars through cryptocurrency investment scams and other cyber-enabled fraud schemes.
In a coordinated push, federal authorities:
- Charged two Chinese nationals — Huang Xingshan (also known as “Ah Zhe” or “Huang Xing Saan”) and Jiang Wen Jie (also known as “Jiang Nan”) — with wire fraud conspiracy. The pair allegedly managed the Shunda compound in Min Let Pan, Burma, where thousands of trafficked workers were enslaved, beaten, and forced to run cryptocurrency investment frauds against Americans. The compound operated from at least January 2025 until it was seized by the Karen National Liberation Army in November 2025.
- Shut down a Telegram channel used to lure victims into human trafficking for a scam compound in Cambodia, where workers were coerced into running law-enforcement impersonation scams.
- Seized 503 fraudulent investment websites and mobile apps disguised as legitimate financial platforms.
- Restrained more than $700 million in illicit cryptocurrency proceeds.
“Today, I announced major actions against Southeast Asian scam centers defrauding Americans,” Pirro stated. “These networks have stolen billions from Americans. Under President Trump’s leadership, these operations are being disrupted and the crackdown is just beginning.”
The actions were announced jointly with Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the DOJ’s Criminal Division, the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, Treasury Department, and State Department.
“The Department’s Criminal Division is proud to partner with U.S. Attorney Pirro’s office on the latest enforcement actions of the Scam Center Strike Force to stop foreign-based criminal networks that exploit vulnerable Americans,” Duva said. “Fraudsters who target Americans from overseas may believe that they cannot be reached, but the Department of Justice and our Strike Force partners are working to ensure that these criminals cannot operate with impunity, no matter where in the world they reside.”
The Scam Center Strike Force was launched by Pirro in November 2025 following President Trump’s Executive Order Combating Cybercrime, Fraud, and Predatory Schemes Against American Citizens. The task force focuses on dismantling Chinese organized crime syndicates running large-scale scam centers in Southeast Asia that combine human trafficking, forced labor, money laundering, and cryptocurrency fraud.
Officials emphasized that seized assets will be pursued for forfeiture and returned to victims to the maximum extent possible.
The announcement highlights the Trump administration’s aggressive whole-of-government strategy to combat transnational cyber fraud that has cost American families and businesses billions in recent years.
The cases are being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the DOJ Criminal Division.
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