She Zhijiang, an alleged transnational crime kingpin accused by Beijing of having run illegal online gambling operations, is escorted by police at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Thailand’s Samut Prakarn province ahead of being extradited to China on Nov. 12, 2025. Sakchai Lalit/AP
A Chinese Cambodian tycoon accused of running online gambling sites and cyber scams in Burma, also known as Myanmar, and Cambodia was extradited to China on Nov. 12, Thai authorities said.
She Zhijiang, the developer of Burma’s Yatai New City, which, according to the U.S. Treasury Department, became notorious for “gambling, drug trafficking, prostitution, and scams targeting people around the world, particularly Americans,” was arrested by Thai police in August 2022.
