{"id":675589,"date":"2026-10-25T04:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T04:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=858262"},"modified":"2026-10-25T04:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T04:30:38","slug":"us-extradites-chinese-national-in-36-9m-crypto-scam-with-174-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/25\/us-extradites-chinese-national-in-36-9m-crypto-scam-with-174-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"US Extradites Chinese National in $36.9M+ Crypto Scam With 174 Victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/doj-3-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"DOJ\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A Chinese national faces a U.S. money laundering charge after extradition from the Netherlands in an alleged cryptocurrency scam involving more than $36.9 million. Investigators identified 174 American victims whose funds allegedly moved through offshore banking and digital wallets. Extradition Brings Zhao Before California Court Zheng Zhao, a 44-year-old Chinese national, was arraigned in the [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Chinese national faces a U.S. money laundering charge after extradition from the Netherlands in an alleged cryptocurrency scam involving more than $36.9 million. Investigators identified 174 American victims whose funds allegedly moved through offshore banking and digital wallets. Extradition Brings Zhao Before California Court Zheng Zhao, a 44-year-old Chinese national, was arraigned in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":675590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-675589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}