FIRST ON FOX — The FBI says it has seized a record-setting $8 billion in cryptocurrency and arrested hundreds of suspects as part of an intercontinental crackdown on “scam compounds” and organized crime, including one group known as the “Democratic Karen Benevolent Army.”

They have been blamed for a global wave of theft from Americans, including as much as $3 million from a single U.S. citizen who fell victim to an online scam. 

The FBI confiscated more than 127,000 bitcoin during the arrest of one leader, Chen Zhi, the CEO of a Cambodian enterprise called the Prince Holding Group. That’s worth more than $8 billion — possibly more than $15 billion a the time of seizure — and officials…