Multiple companies linked to the $1.5 billion Mauerberger network have been "vanished" from the nation’s corporate registry. This means that all historical reference to the company has been forcibly removed by the administrator, as if they never existed.
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For two months, we’ve tracked the $1.5 billion Mauerberger network, an illicit financial web linking sanctioned Chinese scam centers in Cambodia—where trafficked workers target Americans—to major banks, crypto exchanges, and powerful politicians across Southeast Asia.
Now, as the U.S. and U.K. takes decisive action against another Southeast Asian criminal gang targeting Westerners, those at the heart of the Mauerberger network have executed a sophisticated digital disappearing act. Multiple companies tied to Yim Leak, a powerful Cambodian businessman, have been “vanished” from the nation’s corporate registry. All historical references to these businesses, including their banking activities and land deals, have been forcibly erased, as if they never existed.
This move indicates a desperate attempt to obscure a paper trail that our investigation suggests leads from prison-like scam compounds straight to the region's financial and political elite.
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This article is part of Whale Hunting, our ongoing investigation into the money laundering network connecting Southeast Asian scam centers to Thailand's political elite.
