简而言之 国际刑警组织表示,泰国警方逮捕了两人,原因是他们通过加密货币洗钱浪漫诈骗收益,并利用跨链交换来隐藏踪迹。一名 20 岁的嫌疑人控制了一个钱包,在 10 个月内处理了超过 1.225 亿美元的资金。 此次逮捕行动源自“2026 年曙光行动”,该行动历时四个月,遍及 97 个国家和地区,逮捕了 5,811 人,并截获了价值 2.93 亿美元的非法资产。 国际刑警组织表示,它使用其 I-GRIP 止付工具检查法定资产和虚拟资产的流动,识别了超过 142,000 名受害者,并冻结了 31,000 多个银行账户。 国际刑警组织表示,一名 20 岁男子的加密货币钱包在短短 10 个月内转移了超过 1.225 亿美元,这是一项从爱情诈骗受害者那里窃取资金的洗钱计划的一部分,这是全球反欺诈行动中最引人注目的案件之一。 据国际刑警组织称,泰国警方在此案中逮捕了两人,运营商将收益转移到多种加密货币中,并使用跨链代币互换,在不同区块链之间转移资金,以掩盖资金的去向。 🚨 97 个国家逮捕了 5,800 多人,截获 2.93 亿美元
“2026 年曙光行动”的结果突显了社会工程欺诈和相关洗钱活动的全球规模。 在国际刑警组织的协调下,这次行动针对的是背后的犯罪网络…… pic.twitter.com/ArRit7NmMp — 国际刑警组织 (@INTERPOL_HQ) 2026 年 7 月 9 日 此次逮捕行动是“2026 曙光行动”的一部分,该行动从 1 月中旬到 4 月底在 97 个国家和地区进行了协调一致的镇压行动。国际刑警组织表示,当局总共逮捕了 5,811 人,截获了 2.93 亿美元的非法资产,识别了超过 142,000 名受害者,同时冻结了 31,014 个银行账户并分析了超过 152,000 起案件。其中一些冻结依赖于 I-GRIP,这是一种国际刑警组织停止支付机制,可以阻止传统货币和虚拟资产的流动。 国际刑警组织金融犯罪和反腐败中心负责人加谷智信表示,犯罪集团“利用人的心理来操纵他们的目标”,并补充说,除非所有犯罪集团齐心协力,否则没有一个国家能够保持安全。 生猪屠宰和加密货币洗钱
浪漫诈骗通常被称为“杀猪”,通常是从一个陌生人在数周或数月内建立关系开始,然后将目标引向虚假的加密货币投资。一旦受害者的资金上链,洗钱者就会迅速行动以打破踪迹,在区块链上跳跃资金并在代币之间进行交换,从而使调查人员失去线索。 随着执法力度的加强,这种模式变得更加强硬。去年,在国际刑警组织正式将诈骗复合网络指定为影响 60 多个国家受害者的跨国威胁之后,现任区块链分析公司 TRM Labs 的前美国财政部官员阿里·雷德博德 (Ari Redbord) 告诉 ,来自这些业务的资金流越来越依赖于稳定币、低费用链和快速跨链交换,以“分散流动并赢得时间”。
涉及金额巨大。联合国调查人员估计,2020 年至 2024 年间,生猪屠宰活动创造了数百亿美元的收入,其中大部分都耗尽了东南亚依赖贩运和强迫劳动力的强化设施。此后,柬埔寨提出了一项法律,威胁对诈骗头目判处终身监禁,美国法院也判处了长期徒刑,其中包括对一名参与 7300 万美元洗钱计划的逃犯判处 20 年徒刑。 泰国和加密货币犯罪 泰国位于前线,与缅甸和柬埔寨地区接壤,那里有许多营地。根据 TRM Labs 2025 年的案例研究,其网络犯罪调查局每天处理约 800 起投诉,其中大多数涉及加密货币欺诈或洗钱。曼谷已成为逃亡嫌疑人的经常逮捕点,其中包括一名被控进行 5.8 亿美元加密货币和银行卡欺诈的葡萄牙男子,他于 2025 年在曼谷被捕。 区块链分析公司 Chainaanalysis 估计,随着欺诈者将人工智能、网络钓鱼工具包和分层洗钱网络融入其运营中,2025 年加密货币诈骗流入量激增,平均诈骗金额增加了两倍多,达到 2,764 美元。
由中国公安部资助并得到地区警务机构支持的“曙光”只是扩大行动中的一项活动,国际刑警组织在四个月的时间里统计了超过 142,000 名受害者,这说明了执法部门面临的挑战的规模。 每日简报时事通讯 每天从当前的热门新闻报道以及原创专题、播客、视频等开始。
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Thai police arrested two people over a scheme that laundered romance-scam proceeds through crypto, using cross-chain swaps to hide the trail, Interpol said. One suspect, aged 20, controlled a wallet that processed more than $122.5 million in 10 months.
The arrests came out of Operation First Light 2026, a four-month push across 97 countries and territories that led to 5,811 arrests and the interception of $293 million in illicit assets.
Interpol said it identified more than 142,000 victims and blocked over 31,000 bank accounts, using its I-GRIP stop-payment tool to check the flows of fiat and virtual assets.
A 20-year-old's cryptocurrency wallet moved more than $122.5 million in just 10 months as part of a scheme to launder money stolen from romance-scam victims, Interpol said, in one of the standout cases from a sweeping global anti-fraud operation.
Thai police made two arrests in the case, according to Interpol, which said the operators funneled the proceeds into a mix of cryptocurrencies and used cross-chain token swaps, shifting funds between different blockchains, to obscure where the money went.
🚨 5,800+ arrests, USD 293 million intercepted across 97 countries
The results of Operation First Light 2026 highlight the global scale of social engineering fraud and associated money laundering.
Coordinated by INTERPOL, the operation targeted the criminal networks behind… pic.twitter.com/ArRit7NmMp
— INTERPOL (@INTERPOL_HQ) July 9, 2026
The arrests were part of Operation First Light 2026, a coordinated crackdown that ran from mid-January to the end of April across 97 countries and territories. In total, authorities made 5,811 arrests, intercepted $293 million in illicit assets and identified more than 142,000 victims, Interpol said, while blocking 31,014 bank accounts and analyzing more than 152,000 cases. Some of the freezes relied on I-GRIP, an Interpol stop-payment mechanism that can halt flows of both traditional money and virtual assets.
Criminal syndicates "exploit human psychology to manipulate their targets," said Tomonobu Kaya, who heads Interpol's financial crime and anti-corruption center, adding that no country can stay safe unless all of them push back together.
Pig butchering and crypto laundering
Romance scams, often called "pig butchering," typically start with a stranger building a relationship over weeks or months before steering the target toward a fake crypto investment. Once victims' money is on-chain, launderers move fast to break the trail, hopping funds across blockchains and swapping between tokens so investigators lose the thread.
That pattern has hardened as enforcement has ramped up. Flows from these operations increasingly lean on stablecoins, low-fee chains and rapid cross-chain swaps to "fragment movement and buy time," Ari Redbord, a former U.S. Treasury official now at blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs, told last year, after Interpol formally designated scam-compound networks a transnational threat affecting victims in more than 60 countries.
The sums involved are enormous. UN investigators estimate that pig-butchering operations generated tens of billions of dollars between 2020 and 2024, much of it run out of fortified compounds in Southeast Asia that rely on trafficked and coerced labor. Cambodia has since advanced a law threatening scam bosses with life imprisonment, and U.S. courts have handed down long sentences, including 20 years for one fugitive tied to a $73 million laundering scheme.
Thailand and crypto crime
Thailand sits on the front line, bordering the Myanmar and Cambodian regions where many compounds operate. Its Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau fields around 800 complaints a day, most involving crypto-enabled fraud or laundering, according to a 2025 case study by TRM Labs. Bangkok has become a frequent arrest point for suspects on the run, including a Portuguese man accused of $580 million in crypto and card fraud who was picked up there in 2025.
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis estimated that crypto scam inflows surged in 2025, with the average scam payment more than tripling to $2,764 as fraudsters folded AI, phishing kits and layered laundering networks into their operations.
First Light, funded by China's Ministry of Public Security and backed by regional policing bodies, is only one campaign in a widening effort, with Interpol's tally of more than 142,000 victims in a single four-month window illustrating the scale of the challenge facing law enforcement.