{"id":20046,"date":"2026-05-06T07:19:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/cambodian-pms-cousin-admits-30pc-stake-in-digital-payment-firm-linked-to-cyberscams\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:19:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:19:55","slug":"cambodian-pms-cousin-admits-30pc-stake-in-digital-payment-firm-linked-to-cyberscams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/cambodian-pms-cousin-admits-30pc-stake-in-digital-payment-firm-linked-to-cyberscams\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambodian PM\u2019s cousin admits 30pc stake in digital payment firm linked to cyberscams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>PHNOM PENH, May 6 &mdash; A cousin of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said Wednesday he owned a 30 per cent stake in a digital payments platform linked to cyberscams and money laundering and sanctioned by the US.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I would like to inform the public that I have indeed owned 30 per cent of shares in HUIONE PAY PLC,&rdquo; Hun To said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The US government last year accused Huione Group, which owned several companies offering e-commerce, payment and cryptocurrency exchange services, including Huione Pay, of laundering funds for transnational criminal groups perpetrating scams from Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Huione&rsquo;s former chairman, Li Xiong, was extradited to China on April 1.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities say he was central to a major transnational gambling and fraud syndicate and is suspected of multiple crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Li owned 62 per cent of Huione Pay&rsquo;s shares, while Hun To owned 30 per cent, according to a report by liquidator Reachs &amp; Partners.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Huione Pay&rsquo;s liquidation was completed in October 2025, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Hun To said he did not manage the business operations of Huione Pay and &ldquo;never received any profits, dividends or assets from that company&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Since last month, protesters have demanded the unfreezing of their accounts with the Huione platform H-Pay, previously Huione Pay, which they said have been inaccessible since December.<\/p>\n<p>The National Bank of Cambodia has said the Huione platforms&rsquo; business licences have been revoked. &mdash; AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Cambodian PM&rsquo;s cousin admits 30pc stake in digital payment firm linked to cyberscams<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHNOM PENH, May 6 &mdash; A cousin of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet said Wednesday he owned a 30 per cent stake in a digital payments platform linked to cyberscams and money laundering and sanctioned by the US. &ldquo;I would like to inform the public that I have indeed owned 30 per cent of shares&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/cambodian-pms-cousin-admits-30pc-stake-in-digital-payment-firm-linked-to-cyberscams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Cambodian PM\u2019s cousin admits 30pc stake in digital payment firm linked to cyberscams&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}