The UK has also frozen assets linked to the alleged scammers, including a £100m London office building.

An indictment says forced-labor compounds ran cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes that stole billions of dollars from victims in the U.S. and elsewhere.

Two Chinese-born businessmen among six people hit by travel bans and property freezes

This move marks the largest forfeiture in Justice Department history.

Luxury London properties frozen as Foreign Office and US officials impose sanctions on gang behind centres in south-east Asia

The UK has also frozen assets linked to the alleged scammers, including a £100m London office building.

Crackdown targets entities and individuals linked to Prince Group network that used trafficked workers for global fraud.

US treasury department has sanctioned Chinese-born Cambodian tycoon Chen Zhi – alleged mastermind of a cyber-crime empire in south-east Asia