TREE NEWS update: Beijing Shijingshan police intercepted a cross-border telecom fraud ring, freezing 780,000 yuan and returning it to a victim. A 53-year-old man studying abroad was told by scammers posing as Chinese police that he was suspected of money laundering, and was induced to have his family transfer funds into two other Chinese students’ overseas accounts. Investigators found all three were victims of the same gang, which coerced them into converting funds to USDT to launder money.
Beijing Police Bust Cross-Border Scam Forcing Students to Convert Funds to USDT
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AI take
This case is notable less for the amount frozen than for the mechanism: students abroad were allegedly coerced into acting as on-ramps, converting family funds into USDT under the guise of a police investigation. That pattern — impersonation of authorities, then stablecoin conversion — blurs the line between victim and money mule, complicating both recovery and liability. Whether mainland police can trace and reclaim the USDT leg, rather than only the frozen yuan, is the open question.
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