{"id":144850,"date":"2026-01-24T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144850"},"modified":"2026-01-24T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:00:09","slug":"why-china-was-so-keen-to-get-to-alleged-cybercrime-boss-chen-zhi-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=144850","title":{"rendered":"Why China was so keen to get to alleged cybercrime boss Chen Zhi first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen a film about an investigation into a phone scam in Cambodia debuted at the Busan International Film Festival in 2018, it was not the cast or the plot that drew attention in China.<br \/>\nInstead, the focus was on the film\u2019s executive producer, Chen Zhi \u2013 a billionaire Chinese businessman who has himself been accused of running a sprawling online scam network in Cambodia.<br \/>\nIn The Prey \u2013 touted as Cambodia\u2019s \u201cfirst million-dollar action movie\u201d \u2013 an undercover Interpol operative ends up in jail.<br \/>\nBut&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3341096\/why-china-was-so-keen-get-alleged-cybercrime-boss-chen-zhi-first?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen a film about an investigation into a phone scam in Cambodia debuted at the Busan International Film Festival in 2018, it was not&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144850"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}