The Full 146 Entities and People Sanctioned For Scam Compounds

World of Crime breaks down, one by one, every entity sanctioned alongside Chen Zhi and Prince Group in the US and explains how they fit inside the tycoon's criminal economies.

The assets seized from the Prince Group by US and UK sanctions were eye-watering at around $15 billion. The accompanying indictment marked the biggest salvo to date against tycoons like Chen Zhi, the scam compounds they organise, and the political and business allies who support them.

But the true nature of the Prince Group was not found in the maths of the sanctions. Buried within the official declarations is the raw intelligence: a list of 146 names. World of Crime looks at each of them below and has broken down Prince Group’s network into four categories:

First is the Command & Control Structure, the syndicate’s C-suite. This is the insulated brain of the operation, through which Chen Zhi and his handpicked lieutenants gave the orders, directed the violence, and managed the flow of billions. This C-suite directed the Criminal Infrastructure, the brutal factory floor of the enterprise. This is the muscle: the physical scam compounds, the on-the-ground enforcers, and the cryptocurrency exchanges that served as the initial exit ramp for stolen funds.

To protect this engine of fraud, the TCO built a Corporate Façade, a network of seemingly legitimate banks, real estate firms, and hotels that provided political cover and laundered money in plain sight. Finally, the cleaned profits were funneled into the Financial & Offshore Network, a deliberately opaque labyrinth of ghost companies in secrecy jurisdictions, designed to make the syndicate’s fortune untraceable.