{"id":14967,"date":"2025-03-24T00:18:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T00:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/takeaways-from-our-money-laundering-investigation\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T00:18:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T00:18:03","slug":"takeaways-from-our-money-laundering-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/takeaways-from-our-money-laundering-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Takeaways From Our Money Laundering Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">We live in a scammer\u2019s world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">We get texts from unknown numbers with an odd tone of familiarity. We have been promised breathtaking profits in ads on social media. We have encountered characters on dating apps who seemed too good to be true.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It\u2019s not just us, of course. Most people have heard stories or know someone \u2014 a relative, colleague, neighbor \u2014 who fell for a ruse and lost money, perhaps even their life savings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But as our phones blew up with spam calls, we asked a different question. The scammers make billions of dollars every year. How do they turn this illicit cash into seemingly legitimate income? In other words, how do they wash it clean?<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">So we followed the money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Our search took us from Hong Kong, where we are both based, to Cambodia. In the coastal city of Sihanoukville, we witnessed the enduring and notorious carnival of scams, operated from barbed-wire compounds or the upper floors of unfinished buildings. We met with scammers and their launderers at Chinese restaurants that line the beach.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It took us a while to persuade insiders to speak to us but, in the end, about a half-dozen of them led us into their labyrinthine world. They showed us channels on the social media app Telegram where they conduct their trade. They taught us their jargon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And most important, they gave us a cache of documents, a kind of money-laundering handbook, that describes their methods in detail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The trail eventually led us to a Cambodian company called Huione Group, an established financial firm with numerous affiliates. Huione did not respond to our questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Some of its affiliates, we found, have created the architecture needed to launder money. And profit at every step.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-5ea79d6d\">You can hire a money launderer on Telegram.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One of Huione\u2019s affiliate companies hosts an online bazaar where scammers and other criminals can find money launderers. The precise size of this marketplace is impossible to measure, but the analytics firm Elliptic has linked it to $26.8 billion in cryptocurrency transactions since 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The bazaar is made up of thousands of chat groups on Telegram where anonymous users advertise money laundering and other services. It makes money by charging for ads on public groups and from maintenance fees for the private ones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One channel called \u201cDemand and Supply\u201d had more than 400,000 users and received hundreds of messages every day. After we sent questions to Huione Group and others in late February, Telegram said it had removed the channel. But another one quickly sprung up to replace it and had 250,000 members within a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The bazaar denies any criminal association or any link to Huione Group. But it told customers on Telegram that Huione Group is one of its \u201cstrategic partners and shareholders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Once the scammers find money launderers, the conversations move to private groups where deals are hammered out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-7fd8da9\">A \u201cmatchmaker\u201d will find the best deal.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Another arm of the company, Huione International Pay, offers bespoke money laundering services, according to internal documents and two people familiar with its operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">This company serves as what it is known as a matchmaker \u2014 connecting criminals with people who control bank accounts or virtual wallets where the illicit money ends up. The matchmaker takes a cut, say 15 percent to launder money in the United States, and gives some of that to the account owners, known as money mules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Huione International Pay did not answer our questions.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-4891641a\">But scammers get scammed, too.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">One interesting feature of this world, we found, was the \u201cguarantee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The online bazaar will, for a small fee, hold deposits in escrow to guarantee the transactions between criminals and money launderers. Why? Because scammers steal from each other. The deposits enforce honor among thieves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most of the transactions are denominated in the cryptocurrency Tether.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-6cac2be8\">The mules take on the most risk.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Once the matchmaker brokers a deal and a deposit is made, the money mules send over their bank account information. The criminal passes those numbers to the scam victim, who deposits money that will almost certainly never be seen again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most of these accounts are only open for a matter of weeks. Importantly, the accounts have no direct link to the scammers themselves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That means, even if law enforcement agents or banks discover the accounts, they cannot easily trace the money to the criminals. Mules might get arrested. Scammers are harder to catch.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-3735d2c7\">Money hopscotches across the globe<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The mule quickly transfers the money from one account to another. Often, that first hop is out of the country. Sometimes, the money is broken into smaller chunks to avoid suspicion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In one case we reviewed, money defrauded from victims jumped from the United States to the Bahamas. From there, it was used to buy the cryptocurrency Tether.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Finally, the mule takes a cut for services rendered, and sends the rest to the matchmaker. 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