Taiwanese gangster "Xiao Yu" shifts to international fraud, implicating Chinese victims in a 130 billion money laundering case.

Taiwanese gang Zhulian Gang's Hongren Society core member "Xiao Yu" has recently moved his criminal base to Cambodia, Georgia, and India, using highly customized scamming techniques to target global victims on a large scale, especially precise scams, imprisonment, and human trafficking against Chinese people, drawing significant international attention.

The latest announcement from the U.S. Department of the Treasury indicates that the Cambodian "Wangcai Group" has been listed as a "major money laundering organization." Investigations have found that from August 2021 to January 2025, the group laundered up to 4 billion USD (approximately 130 billion New Taiwan Dollars), including 36 million USD from investment scam proceeds. The U.S. pointed out that the group has close ties with Taiwanese scam gangs.

As an important member of the Hongren Society, "Xiao Yu" has established a complete transnational scamming chain in Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe, recruiting a large number of "drivers" and operators, and coercing victims into acting as scamming tools through violence, severely violating human rights. The gang often lures young people from East Asia with the promise of "high-paying jobs abroad," forcing them to participate in scams upon arrival, with non-compliers being imprisoned, beaten, or even sold.

Currently, Thailand, Cambodia, the Philippines, and several Western countries have initiated a joint crackdown and intelligence-sharing mechanism to track the financial flows and whereabouts of the involved groups. Police remind the public to be cautious of "high-paying recruitment" and "overseas investment" scams, to report to the police and seek diplomatic assistance if they find relatives or friends trapped, and call on the media and society to expose such crimes together to prevent more people from becoming victims.