Scam Network Hit with Sanctions and Asset Freeze on £9million London Penthouse

UK steps up crackdown on SE Asia scam network

The UK has frozen assets including a central London penthouse as part of a growing crackdown on a network of "vile" scam centers operating across Southeast Asia, the government said Thursday.

Scam network hit with sanctions and asset freeze on £9million London penthouse

UK sanctions were slapped on assets linked to a network of centres in south-east Asia the Foreign Office said had been used to trick victims out of substantial sums of cash

New sanctions hoped to help disrupt major global criminal network

Government taking action as part of a major international law enforcement operation