The post Thailand extradites Southeast Asian gambling and scam empire kingpin to China appeared com. She Zhijiang is a Chinese national who is facing charges of leading one of Southeast Asia’s largest online gambling and fraud operations over the last decade. 41-year-old businessman Zhijiang has officially been extradited to China after being detained in Thailand since 2022. He arrived at a Bangkok airport on Wednesday in handcuffs and accompanied by two security officials, according to the BBC. International inquiry into She’s alleged activities began when his name appeared in illegal gambling rings and cyberscam hubs that defrauded thousands of victims from China. The government has been requesting his extradition through Interpol for over 3 years, lodging several legal complaints of fraud and illegal gambling. She Zhijiang accused of controlling a pig-butchering scam center Zhijiang was born in 1982 in a rural village in Hunan province, China, but he left school at 14 and began learning computer programming. In his early 20s, he moved to the Philippines to join the online gambling industry because it was banned in China. In 2014, he had already been convicted in a Chinese court for running an illegal lottery. She expanded his operations to Southeast Asia, particularly in Cambodia and Myanmar, both countries where the US Treasury claims he has citizenship. The 41-year-old’s business empire grew popular in Shwe Kokko, a city near the Thai border in Myanmar. Shwe Kokko has been depicted by promoters and blog articles as a luxury resort for Chinese tourists. In reality, the city has been accused of being a base for fraud, money laundering, and human trafficking. Zhijiang and his company, Yatai, have been sanctioned by both the United Kingdom and the United States for their links to human rights abuses in scam factories and online fraud operations. The sanctions were imposed on both financial transactions and corporate operations connected to She to disrupt.
