A new U.N. report warns that transnational organized crime groups in East and Southeast Asia are spreading their lucrative ...

These spillover sites, as the UN calls them, allow Asian OCGs to expand their pool of victims by hiring/trafficking locals ...

Recent regional law enforcement operations have prompted “agile” organized crime groups to expand their regional and global ...

The crime syndicates are raking in billions through fraud and crypto laundering, operations now reaching five continents ...

More recently, scam centers that have bilked victims out ... but also a hedging against future risks should disruption continue and intensify in Southeast Asia,” Benedikt Hofmann, UNODC's ...

Asian crime networks running multi-billion-dollar cyber scam centres are expanding their operations across the world as they seek new victims and new ways to launder money, the UN said on Monday.

FILE - People from China, Vietnam and Ethiopia, believed to have been trafficked and forced to work in scam centers, sit with their faces masked while in detention after being released from the ...