Readit NewsAre you saying that 30-50% of Cambodia's economy can be directly attributed to scamming and casinos? I find that shocking and hard to believe. Do you have a source for that statement?
the economy is not that big to start with :)
GDP $49.8 Billion (nominal; 2025)
Some examples
https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/cambodia...
Cambodia's specifically 30-50% of the economy can be directly attributed to scamming plus casinos
This one of the other organizations / major bank used for money laundering directly linked to Hun Sen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huione_Group
> The company is linked to Cambodia's ruling Hun family, which includes the current prime minister, Hun Manet.[4] His cousin Hun To is a major shareholder and director of Huione Pay
Did you read the article?
The reason to move to ECB would be for ECB garanteed deposits, which many could find safer than their local bank
> Flight to safety would see 13 banks out of cash
this wasn't a swift action overnight
they could be blocking this many accounts on a yearly basis just from scam reports at the police station
or more which seems to be the case recently, but not overnight
this is bad article
> we need more recurring donations
Damn... really? More than $170k/year from Github Sponsors? That's got to be the most successful Github Sponsor income ever right?
take my money!
It ingests 70k lines per second without a sweat
reads are just as fast
Second, most of the money would not make it to the Cambodian economy. It is likely laundered abroad. The whole operation is likely multinational, with only the workforce located in Cambodia.
(not only for these cambodia originated crimes)
Also keep in mind all the bribes, all the money laundering mentioned in the article by the 100s of affiliated subsidiares of the criminal group all in Cambodia
the big casinos which directly and indirectly support additional laundering
https://www.fincen.gov/system/files/2025-10/Huione-Group-Fin...
https://www.kharon.com/brief/huione-group-cambodia-treasury-...
Every business has revenue / costs
The indictment mentions they were doing 30M/day ~ 10B / year, could be an old message when they were smaller
Guessing that's revenue
They're just one of many organizations in the "industry"