FIRST ON FOX — The FBI says it has seized a record-setting $8 billion in cryptocurrency and arrested hundreds of suspects as part of an intercontinental crackdown on “scam compounds” and organized crime, including one group known as the “Democratic Karen Benevolent Army.”
They have been blamed for a global wave of theft from Americans, including as much as $3 million from a single U.S. citizen who fell victim to an online scam.
The FBI confiscated more than 127,000 bitcoin during the arrest of one leader, Chen Zhi, the CEO of a Cambodian enterprise called the Prince Holding Group. That’s worth more than $8 billion — possibly more than $15 billion a the time of seizure — and officials are calling it the largest forfeiture in the history of the U.S. government’s history.
The Democratic Karen Benevolent Army is an armed militia named after a region in Myanmar with alleged ties to the Chinese mob and currently facing sanctions from the U.S. Treasury for prior large scale scamming operations. It has been designated a transnational criminal organization by the government.
FBI Director Kash Patel also announced 764 arrested for coercing Children to produce Child Sexual Abuse Material; “Another 764 subject arrested
FBI and our partners arrested subject Zachary Sweeney out of Tennessee, who allegedly coerced multiple minors from 2022-2025 into producing Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) – in some cases selling the material, traveling to abuse and drug minors, or even live streaming sexual assaults online. One of the victims later tragically died of an overdose.
Nihilistic Violent Extremeism and 764 online violence against kids continues to be one of the most important issues this FBI confronts every day… we arrested nearly 500% more subjects on this issue last year with partners and shut down nearly 4 million pedophile accounts on the dark web.
Parents please check in with your children, monitor their internet usage as you are able, and report any suspicious activity to the FBI – 1-800-CALL-FBI.”
🚨 BREAKING: Acting AG Todd Blance just CONFIRMED federal law enforcement will be ARRESTING the man I caught on video threatening to KlLL an ICE agent and his family
“I PROMISE you, we WILL find him, and when we find him, we will ARREST him, because it is a crime not only to… https://t.co/mkueJ0hIKr pic.twitter.com/w9dc9Va1pe
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) May 28, 2026
Scam compounds are modern-day criminal enterprises built to steal from Americans, launder money, and exploit trafficked workers.
The FBI led the charge to take down Prince Group in Cambodia and Operation Sand Dollar in Dubai, shutting down more than $8 billion in fraud, freeing…
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) May 28, 2026
FBI leading global scam center take downs- that target our seniors from afar. We will dismantle them all- already Billions in fraud shut down, hundreds arrested, thousands of trafficked workers freed… that’s just one op. pic.twitter.com/cmIy8TW9CN
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) May 29, 2026
🚨 Another 764 subject arrested
FBI and our partners arrested subject Zachary Sweeney out of Tennessee, who allegedly coerced multiple minors from 2022-2025 into producing Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM) – in some cases selling the material, traveling to abuse and drug…
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) May 29, 2026
🚨 BOOM! The Democrat Party just admitted: “Your taxpayer dollars are funding an out-of-control mass deportation machine.”
“Last year, Republicans gave ICE $140 billion. Now, Republicans want to give ICE $70 billion more.”
Sign me up 🔥pic.twitter.com/KiASVoHgrj
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) May 29, 2026
A crown for every achievement. pic.twitter.com/S2Yhhmhkq6
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) May 28, 2026
