He was generous with charities and often dined with the well-connected in Cambodia while pitching himself as a businessman, but casino kingpin She Zhijiang was in fact the brains behind an illegal gambling and online scam empire with links to people and firms throughout South-East Asia.
She’s operations tapped blockchain technology developed by a Singapore-based firm to move cryptocurrency, had investors from Malaysia and Myanmar, and ran casinos in the Philippines and Cambodia, where online gambling was later banned.
One of She’s firms – Yatai International Holdings – put out recruitment advertisements on Facebook with promises of well-paying jobs amid the Covid-19 pandemic, which saw a rise in unemployment and underemployment. She, who was born in China, initially ran an online gambling business in the Philippines targeting Chinese nationals. When the government in China clamped down on online gambling, which is illegal, the 41-year-old ran.
His associates followed suit, as did many Chinese nationals who were involved in the online gambling trade. The police in Singapore previously said that five of the 10 accused persons – Su Haijin, 40, Su Baolin, 41, Su Wenqiang, 31, Wang Dehai, 34, Chen Qingyuan, 33 – had Cambodian passports.
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