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PIG BUTCHERING: now the #1 loss category in the US by estimated volume / HUSHPUPPI: the Instagram that became the evidence -- Case 001 open / BEC: one spoofed email, one wire, seven figures -- see the methodology / ROSS ULBRICHT: full pardon January 21 2025 after 11+ years -- Case 013 open / ALL FIGURES LABELED: estimate vs conviction vs market collapse -- see Methodology / UNODC 2023: $5.4B estimated annually from SE Asia pig-butchering compounds [UNVERIFIED] / PIG BUTCHERING: now the #1 loss category in the US by estimated volume / HUSHPUPPI: the Instagram that became the evidence -- Case 001 open / BEC: one spoofed email, one wire, seven figures -- see the methodology / ROSS ULBRICHT: full pardon January 21 2025 after 11+ years -- Case 013 open / ALL FIGURES LABELED: estimate vs conviction vs market collapse -- see Methodology / UNODC 2023: $5.4B estimated annually from SE Asia pig-butchering compounds [UNVERIFIED]
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BORN HERE▸
Nobody in our case files was born in Malta yet.
OPERATED HERE1▸
Physically based or working in Malta — lived, ran an office, met victims or was stationed here, per the record. Hacking a target here does not count.
Valletta, Malta
#77Ghaleb AlaumaryMoney Laundering$30M+
WHAT THEY DID HERE, AND WHEN
Feb 2019$14M taken from Bank of Valletta in a heist the DOJ attributes to North Korea; Alaumary and Ramon Abbas conspire to launder part of it.SOURCE: DOJ (attributed)
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