House panel warns illegal gambling fuels scam networks across Southeast Asia targeting Americans

Illegal online gambling operations across Southeast Asia have grown into a major driver behind global scam networks now stealing billions from Americans each year, according to the chairman of the House Select Committee on China. At a Capitol Hill hearing Tuesday (May 19), committee chairman John Moolenaar said Chinese-linked criminal organizations originally built much of the region’s underground economy around online gambling businesses before expanding into fraud, money laundering, cybercrime