Crime · Reference
What has actually been done about organised crime and illicit finance in the region, by whom, on what date, and under which authority. The record is public but scattered; this assembles it.
7 verified · 4 not yet confirmed
Every entry below the first heading has been read against the Federal Register or another primary publisher, and links to it. The second list holds actions that are widely reported but which we could not open at source — the issuing bodies' own sites were unreachable. They are listed as open questions rather than omitted, and should not be cited.
How to read this
A person or organisation appears here only because a public body named them first, and the entry records that body's act — not this publication's opinion. The distinction in the label matters and is not cosmetic: a designation is an executive determination on a reasonable-cause standard and is not a criminal finding, and an indictment is an allegation against a defendant who is presumed innocent. Neither is a conviction.
This is a chronology, not a status board. Every entry describes an act on the date it happened. Designations are lifted and delisted, so nothing here should be read as a statement of anyone's current status. For that, consult the issuing body's live list — the OFAC sanctions list search and the Federal Register are authoritative and this page is not.
US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
FinCEN proposed extending its earlier §311 rule to a successor payment company. The pattern is worth noting on its own: a §311 action against an institution can be answered by continuing the business through a new corporate vehicle, and the rulemaking has to follow it.
Named by the acting body H-Pay Service PLC
A regulator acting against an institution or a payment channel.
President of the United States
A standing authority directed at cyber-enabled fraud. It names nobody; it is the instrument under which subsequent designations in this area are expected to be made.
A legal instrument. It names no one.
US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)
FinCEN issued a final rule severing a Cambodian financial group from the US financial system as an institution of primary money laundering concern. This was a §311 action, not a §2313a action under the FEND Off Fentanyl Act — trade coverage frequently conflates the two.
Named by the acting body Huione Group
A regulator acting against an institution or a payment channel.
US Department of the Treasury (OFAC), alongside separate UK action
Treasury designated 146 targets within a Cambodia-based transnational criminal organisation — the count as later stated in FinCEN’s own rulemaking, not one tallied here. The United Kingdom acted the same day through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Home Office, designating a small number of targets rather than mirroring the US action.
Named by the acting body Prince Group Transnational Criminal Organization · Chen Zhi
An executive administrative determination on a reasonable-cause standard. Not a criminal finding.
US Department of the Treasury (OFAC)
Treasury designated twelve entities and two individuals across the two countries. Widely reported as "twelve companies and seven individuals"; the Federal Register notice lists two.
Named by the acting body Oo, Saw Min Min · Win, Tin
An executive administrative determination on a reasonable-cause standard. Not a criminal finding.
US Department of the Treasury (OFAC)
Treasury designated a Cambodian business figure and an associated group in connection with forced labour at scam operations.
Named by the acting body Ly Yong Phat · L.Y.P. Group Co., Ltd
An executive administrative determination on a reasonable-cause standard. Not a criminal finding.
US Department of the Treasury (OFAC)
Treasury designated a transnational criminal organisation operating from the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone in Bokeo, together with associated companies and four individuals. Note the authority: this was E.O. 13581, not the Kingpin Act — a distinction obscured by one of the organisation’s own aliases.
Named by the acting body Zhao Wei TCO (a.k.a. Kings Romans Casino; Kings Romans Group) · Kings Romans International (HK) Co., Limited · Kings Romans International Investment Co. Limited · King Romans Company Limited · Wei, Zhao · Su, Guiqin · Eberahim, Abbas · Rungtawankhiri, Nat
An executive administrative determination on a reasonable-cause standard. Not a criminal finding.
These actions are widely reported and several have a Federal Register notice establishing that something happened on the date shown under the authority shown. What could not be done is read the substance: Treasury, FinCEN and Justice Department sites were unreachable, and since around 2024 OFAC publishes its name lists in the Federal Register as embedded images rather than text. Names, counts and characterisations below are therefore unverified and are not asserted.
US Department of the Treasury (OFAC)
A further OFAC action expanding the October 2025 designations is documented for this date under this authority. The number of targets, the individuals named, and reported coordination with Japanese and Australian agencies could not be verified.
An executive administrative determination on a reasonable-cause standard. Not a criminal finding.
US Department of the Treasury (OFAC)
An OFAC action of this date is documented in the Federal Register under the cyber sanctions authority — not the transnational-crime authority under which the other Cambodia actions were taken. The designated names could not be read, because the notice publishes them as an embedded image.
An executive administrative determination on a reasonable-cause standard. Not a criminal finding.
US Department of Justice
Reported indictment and civil forfeiture action connected to the same organisation designated by Treasury on the same date. The charging district, the charges, the quantity of cryptocurrency and the characterisation of the forfeiture as the largest in the Department’s history are all unverified — justice.gov could not be opened. An indictment is in any case an allegation, and any defendant is presumed innocent.
An allegation. The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
US Department of the Treasury (OFAC)
Reported designation of an armed group as a transnational criminal organisation, with associated individuals, in connection with the compound complex at Shwe Kokko in Kayin State. No primary source was opened for this entry.
An executive administrative determination on a reasonable-cause standard. Not a criminal finding.
Not actions against a named party, but the documents that define how institutions are expected to identify and report this activity.
FinCEN — FIN-2023-Alert005
Alert on virtual currency investment fraud
Reported to establish the suspicious-activity report key term US filers use for this typology — which would explain why the older English name for the fraud persists in regulatory filing after INTERPOL asked for it to be retired.
FinCEN — FIN-2025-A003
Advisory on the use of Chinese money laundering networks by Mexico-based transnational criminal organisations
Reported to record a terminology shift: US agencies moved from "organizations" to "networks" in 2025, encoding a judgement about horizontal, decentralised structure rather than hierarchy.
Every entry is drawn from the acting body's own release, notice or docket. Where a figure or a count appears, it is the one that body published. Corrections are logged on the corrections page like any other.