{"id":52904,"date":"2025-10-15T06:16:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=52904"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:16:31","slug":"bitcoin-reserves-held-by-us-could-swell-to-36-billion-as-doj-files-largest-ever-forfeiture-linked-to-cambodian-pig-butchering-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=52904","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Reserves Held By US Could Swell To $36 Billion As DOJ Files Largest Ever Forfeiture Linked To Cambodian &#8216;Pig Butchering&#8217; Scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Justice Department filed its largest-ever forfeiture suit on Tuesday to seize more than $14 billion in <strong>Bitcoin <\/strong>(CRYPTO: <a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) tied to a global &#8220;pig butchering scam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DOJ Files To Seize Illegal BTC Proceeds<\/h2>\n<p>The indictment charged Cambodian-based business tycoon <strong>Chen Zhi <\/strong>of running a transnational criminal network that carried out large\u00a0cryptocurrency investment scams across the U.S. and other countries. Zhi was yet to be caught as of this writing.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ alleged that Zhi ran scam compounds across Cambodia, where individuals held against their will defrauded victims through &#8220;pig butchering&#8221; schemes.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme involves <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/23\/06\/32920991\/woman-falls-for-crypto-scammer-on-tinder-loses-entire-401-k-savings-of-100-000\">scammers contacting victims through dating apps and social media<\/a>. After winning their trust, the fraudsters trick the victims &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/25\/10\/48217205\/bitcoin-reserves-held-by-us-could-swell-to-36-billion-as-doj-files-largest-ever-forfeiture-\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" reserves held by us could swell to billion as doj files largest ever forfeiture linked cambodian butchering scams>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Justice Department filed its largest-ever forfeiture suit on Tuesday to seize more than $14 billion in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) tied to a global &#8220;pig butchering scam.&#8221; DOJ Files To Seize Illegal BTC Proceeds The indictment charged Cambodian-based business tycoon Chen Zhi of running a transnational criminal network that carried out large\u00a0cryptocurrency investment scams across [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-52904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}