Thailand Appoints Official to Probe Criminal Network That Paid His Wife $3 Million

Welcome to Whale Hunting, where we follow the money from Southeast Asian scam centers to Manhattan penthouses, exposing the criminal networks that cost Americans billions each year.

On Monday, Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul appointed Deputy Finance Minister Vorapak Tanyawong to a special government committee investigating Chinese-Cambodian criminal networks. There's just one problem: those same networks allegedly paid Vorapak's wife $3 million in cryptocurrency this year.

A Whale Hunting investigation has uncovered signed Singapore corporate filings showing the payment came directly from Benjamin Mauerberger's criminal network—the very network Vorapak is now tasked with investigating. Through this payment and parallel transactions, Mauerberger's network secretly gained control of 52% of Thai finance company Finansia X PCL, creating an illegal pipeline between crypto and traditional banking. This isn't an isolated case of corruption. It's systematic state capture.

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Tom and Bradley

👇 BELOW: Exclusive documents reveal:

• The exact $2.94M cryptocurrency payment trail with dates and signatures
• How Singapore's fund structures enabled the hidden takeover of Finansia
• Why a U.S.-indicted crypto exchange got Thai government backing
• Blockchain evidence showing classic money laundering patterns
• The circular absurdity: investigators paid by those they're investigating