In brief

• Thailand’s Department of Special Investigation has widened a probe into a “grey Chinese capital” network that allegedly used illegal crypto mining to launder more than 10 billion baht, about $300 million, a year.
• Investigators have seized over 6,390 mining rigs, pegged power theft from the state utility at more than 953 million baht ($29 million), and issued eight arrest warrants, four for Chinese financiers and four for Myanmar nationals.
• The DSI says the mining fronted laundering of proceeds from call-center scams and online gambling, with couriers pulling 30 to 50 million baht a day from Thai banks.