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The U.S. government imposed sanctions on FUNNULL , a company accused of providing infrastructure for cybercriminals running so-called “pig butchering” crypto scams that have led to $200 million in losses for Americans victims.

FUNNULL is based in the Philippines and run by Chinese -national Liu Lizhi , who was also sanctioned on Thursday .

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