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Thailand has issued an arrest warrant for a Chinese businessman featured in a Reuters investigation into transnational crypto-investment fraud, alleging he was part of a network that laundered money from scams and online gambling through illegal cryptocurrency mining.

The tip about the illegal mining camp came at the beginning of March 2026.

Under repeated assaults from hundreds of excavators and artisanal miners, the Offin River is now a shadow of its former self.