Hong Kong, 8 Other Jurisdictions Arrest 3,018 in Cross-Border Fraud Crackdown, Freeze $20M in Stablecoin Transfers

According to ChainCatcher citing a Hong Kong Police statement, law enforcement from Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand, and five other jurisdictions arrested 3,018 people during a crackdown on cross-border fraud and money laundering between March 10 and May 7. The operation investigated over 138,000 fraud cases involving $752 million in losses and froze 101,989 bank accounts, successfully intercepting $161 million in stolen funds. In a major case involving a Singapore company defrauded of $36 million, approximately half of the recovered funds were converted into stablecoins and transferred to multiple virtual asset wallets. Police successfully froze $20 million of these stablecoin transfers after tracking the activity. Authorities noted an upward trend in cryptocurrency-based money laundering across the jurisdictions.
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