Independent DeFi security desk · Status: operationalMethodology & corrections · Submit an incident
Incident record · Confirmed

UK: Fraud or scam

Thet Li is accused of running the finances of a scam empire tied to $14 billion in Bitcoin the U.S. has moved to seize.

StatusConfirmed
Reported loss$12.0M
ChainBitcoin
Confidence80%

Evidence boundary

Confidence describes the coverage of the available evidence. It is not a safety rating and does not guarantee that a protocol or asset is safe.

Sources

Record history

First seen: 2026-10-12T10:12:48.000Z. Last updated: 2026-10-12T11:46:16.504Z. Revision: 1.