The Rise and Fall of an Alleged Scam Boss

惹怒中美英三国!柬埔寨“百亿诈骗教父”覆灭记

Big Take Asia

2026-03-11

25 分钟
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By any account, Chen Zhi's ascent was meteoric. At a young age he founded a real estate company in Cambodia, which quickly became the sprawling Prince Group conglomerate. But beneath this legitimate facade, Chen allegedly ran a vast criminal network, building an empire on scams, human trafficking and high-level political protection. On today’s Big Take Asia podcast, K. Host Oanh Ha and Bloomberg’s David Ramli look into the rapid rise and sudden downfall of an alleged criminal mastermind. This episode was produced by: Yang Yang; Editors: Patrick Hirsch, Serena Ng, Matthew Thomas; Reporting by: David Ramli; Additional Reporting: Low De Wei; Sound Design/Engineer: Taka Yasuzawa; Fact-checker: Eleanor Harrison-Dengate; Deputy Executive Producer: Julia Weaver; Executive Producer: Nicole Beemsterboer See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • Hello, I'm Stephen Carroll.

  • I'm in Brussels where many of Europe's biggest decisions get made.

  • And I'm Caroline Hepker in London.

  • We're the hosts of the Bloomberg Daybreak Europe podcast.

  • This January, Chinese state media treated viewers to a gripping spectacle.

  • The arrest and public humiliation of a tycoon and suspected master criminal, Chen Zhi.

  • If you watch the footage, you see that the guards in the SWAT gear

  • have changed him into the prison garb

  • and they're placing the black bag over his head.

  • His arms are in shackles.

  • David Ramli is a Bloomberg investing reporter based in Singapore.

  • He watched the footage of Chen's extradition from Cambodia.

  • A team armed with automatic weapons leads Chen onto the plane.

  • And then it's later when he comes off the plane,

  • they take the bag off and his eyes are just staring at the ground.

  • And clearly he realizes this is a very different scenario to what he had expected.

  • Chen allegedly ran a criminal network in Cambodia for more than a decade.

  • His businesses were believed to have used forced labor

  • and were said to have defrauded people all over the world of billions of dollars.

  • A lot of countries had their eyes on him, including the US's Federal Bureau of Investigation.