Ari Redbord
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first heard Feb 2026
last heard 11 May
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Okay.
So he was, and we can talk about this a little bit.
So he was indicted by the US and then ultimately China swooped in and brought him to China.
And I think this is kind of the China narrative in my mind.
And that is, if you read the indictment, you read the forfeiture order, there's reference throughout to Chinese national security agencies in there and how they were connected to Cambodian government, how they were connected to the Prince group.
And I think the reality is that for China's taste, Shenzi just flew too close to the sun.
You know, it's one thing to operate this way, likely sending funds back to China, but you can't get caught.
And you definitely cannot get indicted and brought back to the U.S.
Very likely, or at a minimum, certainly looking the other way.
It's a bad look for China.
So they grabbed him so we couldn't was essentially how I, that's my interpretation of what happened.
And since this is Bankless, we can, you know, we'll take it a little further than I might think.
than I might normally.
But I think that is essentially what happened there in terms of the arrest.
But I do want to point one thing out that's important.
We are seeing a shift, and I think it's a really good shift.
We at TRM held our public sector summit last week where I got out in front of about 250, mostly US federal law enforcement and national security agencies.
And we actually talked about this point.
And we're finally seeing a shift to the way we go about our business.
It's always been from a law enforcement perspective, you've got to arrest someone, right?
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