Southeast Asian Money Laundering Networks and Their Extensive Global Reach

On December 4^th, 2025, Cambodian authorities targeted Huione Group, a notorious money laundering front for global hacker networks and cyber criminals. Huione Group provides refuge for global scammers, who often operated out of various countries across Southeast Asia. Essentially, Huione Group recruits various criminals and scammers through social media networks and then launders the scammers’ criminal proceeds through illegitimate businesses. Huione Group’s often launders money from victims that were scammed in the United States (U.S.), sending the money between multiple other countries, converting the money into cryptocurrencies, making it harder for law enforcement to trace the illicit transactions.