Two citizens were arrested in Thailand for suspected cryptocurrency fraud, with the amount involved in the case being approximately US$17.7 million
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2025-03-24 20:02 7,455
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On March 24, Thai police arrested two Chinese citizens suspected of cryptocurrency fraud and kidnapping. Police arrested Wu Di, 27, and her boyfriend, 29, at a luxury villa in Pattaya.
The survey shows that Wu Di tricked victims into investing in a fictional Singapore dollar investment fund through Facebook, defrauding more than 600 million baht (about 17.7 million US dollars) in the past two months alone. The scammers used a "puppet account" to hold the funds briefly, and then converted the funds into USDT through P2P transactions on Binance and other Thai digital asset exchanges, and then transferred them to Wu Di's digital wallet registered in Cambodia.
Police also found that Zhou Zongyong was suspected of kidnapping a Chinese woman in Cambodia and demanding ransom, and the woman's whereabouts are still unknown. Thai police said the couple will undergo legal proceedings in Thailand first and then hand them over to Chinese authorities for prosecution in accordance with Chinese laws.