WASHINGTON D.C. – Federal prosecutors unveiled criminal charges Thursday against two Chinese citizens accused of overseeing a large-scale cross-border cyber fraud operation centered on a forced-labor compound in Myanmar, according to newly unsealed court records. The defendants, identified as Huang Xing Shan and Jiang Wen Jie, face a single count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for their alleged management of the industrial Shunda Park scam facility located in Myanmar’s Min Let Pan village. The compound was seized by Myanmar’s armed forces in November 2025, following years of rampant growth of illegal cyberscam operations along the Myanmar-Thailand border. U.S. law enforcement investigations confirm these illicit hubs have continued to operate despite repeated public pledges from Myanmar’s military government to eliminate the criminal networks.
Court filings confirm both Huang and Jiang are currently held in immigration custody by Thai authorities. Prosecutors allege the pair had fled to a separate scam compound in Cambodia earlier this year before being arrested by Thai police on charges of illegal entry into the country. As of Thursday’s announcement, no timeline has been confirmed for their extradition to the United States to face trial, and online court records do not yet list any legal counsel representing the two defendants.
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation built its case against the pair after reviewing thousands of digital devices recovered from the Shunda Park compound and conducting interviews with dozens of former captive workers. According to an FBI agent’s sworn affidavit, scammers operating out of the facility impersonated legitimate law enforcement officers and bank officials, using fake websites built to mimic legitimate cryptocurrency investment platforms. These fraudulent operations targeted victims across the world, tricking consumers into transferring hundreds of millions of dollars in digital assets to criminal-controlled accounts.
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, who made the official charge announcement at a Washington D.C. press conference, emphasized that this type of transnational cyber fraud is one of the fastest-growing and most destructive forms of modern cybercrime, with total annual losses for American consumers estimated in the billions of dollars.
“This isn’t abstract. It is hitting your neighbors’, your friends’ and your parents’ retirement accounts,” Pirro told reporters. “Some of these victims are so distraught that they end up taking their own lives. This is economic homicide.”
Former workers who spoke to FBI investigators detailed widespread human trafficking and abuse inside the Shunda Park compound. Many workers told agents they were held against their will and forced to carry out scam activity under constant threat of violence. Criminal organizations behind the scam hubs commonly lure vulnerable job seekers with false promises of high-wage technical roles in Thailand, the FBI affidavit explains. Once job seekers arrive, their identity documents are seized, and they are trafficked across the border into Myanmar to work in the illicit scam compounds.
Alongside the unsealing of charges against Huang and Jiang, Pirro announced additional law enforcement action Thursday: authorities have taken down hundreds of scam-associated domains and seized a Telegram channel that the criminal network used to recruit potential trafficking victims for a separate scam compound in Cambodia.
“These criminals thought they were untouchable because they were operating overseas,” Pirro said. “Today, we are proving them wrong, and we are just getting started.”