Hun To

Huione Group and related services Hun To has been identified as one of three directors of Huione Pay, a Phnom Penh-based firm offering currency exchange, payments and remittance services; the company said his directorship did not include day-to-day oversight of operations. ABC News said Elliptic found listings on Huione Guarantee for money laundering services and “detention equipment”, alongside other services associated with scam operations. In May 2025, the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued a finding identifying Huione Group as a “primary money laundering concern” and proposed measures intended to restrict its access to the U.S. financial system, citing risks linked to cyber heists and “pig butchering” scams. In 2025, Telegram said it had blocked Huione Guarantee and another large Chinese-language marketplace; Elliptic estimated the two services had handled more than US$35 billion in transactions since 2021. Thailand's cybercrime police have publicly said they traced financial flows from online gambling and call-centre scams to Huione Group and were examining a potential connection to a nephew of Hun Sen; the police commissioner declined to comment when asked whether the company was owned by Hun To. Scam compounds, corporate registrations and politically connected networks An Al Jazeera investigation into scam-compound abuses in Cambodia stated that corporate registrations listed Hun To as a director of multiple Heng He companies connected to the compound it examined. A 2025 report by Humanity Research Consultancy on Cambodia's trafficking-linked cybercrime economy identified Hun To as a director of Huione Group and said companies under the Heng He Group listed him as a director; the report also discussed politically connected investment networks including Prince Group Holdings. == Australia ==

Operation Illipango investigation Operation Illipango, an Australian Crime Commission inquiry, investigated the shipment of heroin to Australia from Cambodia concealed in loads of timber and related allegations of money laundering, according to Australian media reporting published in 2012. Hill also alleged that Hun To was involved in a range of illicit activities, including drug trafficking, illegal deforestation, animal trafficking, illegal gambling and human trafficking. Hill further said that, in 2008, Hun To was accused by two opposition party candidates of ordering his bodyguards to assault them in Cambodia, and that he had heard similar allegations about assaults on critics in Australia. Hun To has denied allegations of involvement in trafficking and money laundering. Defamation proceedings In 2024, The Australian removed a 2022 article and published a clarification stating that it did not intend to make criminal allegations against Hun To and accepted his denials; UCA News reported the proceedings were resolved on a confidential basis. Radio Free Asia reported in 2024 that Australia declined to renew Hun To's visa during the dispute and that he and his family held business and property interests around Melbourne. In 2025, The Australian reported on a hearing in the Federal Court of Australia in which Al Jazeera appealed a ruling connected to a defamation action brought by Hun To over a documentary about human trafficking and slavery in Cambodia; the report said the network sought access to documents held by the Australian Federal Police relating to an investigation into international drug trafficking and associated money laundering, and that the AFP resisted disclosure on public interest grounds. == Dispute with Heng Sithy ==

In January 2025, Radio Free Asia reported that Hun To threatened legal action against businessman Heng Sithy after Heng filed a complaint to Cambodia's justice ministry alleging that US$9 million had been taken from a Chinese investor in connection with promised support for a mining project; Hun To said the allegations were untrue and defamatory and said he was prepared to file a counterclaim. == References ==