Benjamin Mauerberger, the South African front for a $1.5 billion Chinese-Cambodian criminal money network, has issued a statement replying to our bombshell reporting over the past six weeks.
A new Whale Hunting investigation has found that Sam Altman's controversial AI company, Tools for Humanity, unwittingly became entangled with a criminal "dirty money" network tied to Chinese scam centers in Cambodia.
Behind the yachts and private jets of the $1.5 billion Mauerberger network, a vast criminal enterprise traffics foreign nationals into Cambodian scam centers to steal billions from US victims.
Yesterday, we received a cease and desist letter from KuCoin's legal team demanding we remove our investigation into their alleged role in a $1.5 billion money laundering network tied to former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. We stand by our reporting and won't be intimidated.
A criminal network connected to disgraced crypto firm KuCoin and a Thai political dynasty is moving hundreds of millions of dollars in dirty money across Southeast Asia, and U.S. law enforcement wants to stop it.
Inside the $1.5B shadow empire: How convicted criminal Benjamin Mauerberger became the financial fixer for Thailand's Shinawatra dynasty, operating from Cambodia's crime hubs to Manhattan penthouses—and why the US is watching closely.