Scam crackdown continues


The nation’s arrest of alle­ged scam centre kingpin Chen Zhi and his extradition to China was “not the end” of the South-East Asian nation’s battle to stamp out trans-border crimes, its foreign minister said.

Last week’s surprise arrest of Chinese-born Chen is a key step in an until-now fragmented international campaign targeting sophisticated scam networks in South-East ‌Asia run by criminal gangs, swindling victims worldwide out of billions of dollars.

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