UK court bid for Thet Li's £10.6 million of watches and jewelry goes past the freeze on his penthouse
UK authorities will ask a court on Monday to keep £10.6 million of watches and jewelry seized from Prince Group's alleged finance chief, Thet Li. It is the only keep-request in Cryptopolitan's report, set against £203.9 million of frozen property.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence45
UK authorities have frozen the £8.9 million London penthouse of Thet Li, alleged Prince Group finance chief, The Times reported. The flat is the smallest of the five London properties on the paper's list.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence55
OFAC listed the Xinbi marketplace and two software developers on September 9, with 52 TRON addresses that Chainalysis says received more than $8.4bn in stablecoins against Treasury's $24bn count for the platform.
Reality
- Evidence71
- Adoption62
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives62
- Confidence68
DOJ and the NCA will decide together which country prosecutes each scam-compound case
The memorandum signed Thursday commits both agencies to an in-person disruption event with private industry partners, hosted by the National Crime Agency in London in early October, on cases they had already found overlapping.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption40
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives65
- Confidence55
Hong Kong's 56 months and Chainalysis's $14bn both point at the stablecoin off-ramp
A recruiter's Hong Kong prison term stands, and the proceeds it fed ran on stablecoins. The gap between traced fraud flows and estimated global losses shows where screening is not looking.
Reality
- Evidence44
- Adoption63
- Hype gap+16
- Incentives61
- Confidence46
China got the handcuffs on Chen Zhi. Expect the fraud to change address, not stop
Beijing's crackdown on Southeast Asian scam compounds is driven by domestic outrage, and one expert told Congress the effect so far has been syndicates pivoting to target Americans.
Reality
- Evidence56
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+6
- Incentives34
- Confidence55