PANews reported on February 27 that, according to Decrypt, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia announced that its Special Task Force on Fraud Centers has frozen and seized over $580 million in cryptocurrency from Southeast Asian criminal networks. Attorney Jeanine Pirro stated that the task force has made "significant progress" in freezing, seizing, and confiscating crypto assets from fraud networks in countries such as Myanmar, Cambodia, and Laos, and said it will pursue legal action to return these funds to victims as much as possible.

The Fraud Center Task Force, established in November 2025, is coordinated by multiple government agencies including the U.S. Department of Justice, the FBI, the Secret Service, and the Treasury Department. Its goal is to combat transnational criminal networks that profit from "pig butchering" scams. These scams use social engineering to lure victims into buying cryptocurrencies, then transfer the funds through fake investment domains and applications.