Summary
The U.S. has charged two Chinese nationals with managing a Myanmar compound authorities say was used to run cryptocurrency investment fraud scams, with court records unsealed in Washington in connection with a federal case. Prosecutors allege Huang Xing Shan and Jiang Wen Jie oversaw operations at Shunda Park in Min Let Pan before Myanmar armed forces seized the compound in November 2025.
The complaint filed in federal court charges the suspects with wire fraud conspiracy and says the case centers on an industrial-scale scam operation in Myanmar, where workers were forced to participate in fraudulent investment schemes, according to the court records. Cyberscam centers have proliferated near Myanmar’s border with Thailand, and they have persisted even after Myanmar’s military leadership vowed to wipe them out, The Associated Press reported.
The charging documents describe how FBI investigators reviewed thousands of electronic devices recovered from the Shunda Park compound and interviewed some of its former workers. In an affidavit attributed to an FBI agent, authorities said scammers posing as law-enforcement or bank officials used fraudulent websites disguised as legitimate investment platforms to defraud victims around the world by duping them into sending cryptocurrency.
At a news conference in Washington, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announced the case and said the type of scam authorities associate with Shunda Park is among the fastest-growing and most financially damaging forms of cybercrime, costing Americans billions in losses. Pirro said, “This isn’t abstract. It is hitting your neighbors’, your friends’ and your parents’ retirement accounts,” and added, “Some of these victims are so distraught that they end up taking their own lives. This is economic homicide.”
The filings also allege coercion inside the compound, with compound workers telling the FBI they were held against their will and forced to participate under threats of violence. The affidavit said, “The criminal syndicates behind these compounds often lure unsuspecting persons to travel to nearby Thailand with the offer of high-paying technical jobs. However, many of these persons instead have their identification documents seized and are trafficked to (Myanmar) to work in these scam compounds.”
Court records posted online did not list attorneys for the defendants. The documents further say both suspects charged in Washington are in government custody in Thailand for illegally entering that country, and that they had relocated to another scam compound in Cambodia before being arrested by Thai authorities on immigration charges earlier this year. The filings did not specify when the defendants could be brought to the United States for prosecution.
Pirro also said authorities took down hundreds of scam-related websites and seized a channel on the Telegram messaging app that she said was used to recruit human trafficking victims to a compound in Cambodia. She said, “These criminals thought they were untouchable because they were overseas,” adding, “Today, we are proving them wrong, and we are just getting started.”