{
  "id": "she-zhijiang",
  "title": "She Zhijiang",
  "lang": "en",
  "source_lang": "en",
  "summary": "Chinese-born Cambodian businessman, arrested in Thailand in 2022 and extradited to China in 2025; he faces allegations of illegal gambling and fraud operations.",
  "category": "society",
  "subcategory": "politics",
  "type": "person",
  "aliases": [
    "佘伦凯",
    "佘志江",
    "唐伦凯",
    "Tang Kriang Kai",
    "She Lunkai",
    "Dylan She",
    "Dylan Jiang"
  ],
  "generated_at": "2026-10-16",
  "model": "pro/claude-haiku-5-5",
  "url": "https://aiwiki.page/en/she-zhijiang/",
  "translations": {
    "zh-Hans": {
      "url": "https://aiwiki.page/zh/she-zhijiang/",
      "json": "https://aiwiki.page/zh/she-zhijiang.json"
    }
  },
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "",
      "text": "She Zhijiang (Chinese: 佘智江; born 1982) is a Chinese-born businessman who later obtained Cambodian citizenship and is known under several other names. He led the Yatai International Holdings Group, a company involved in property development and urban projects in Southeast Asia. He was detained in Thailand in 2022 and was returned to China in November 2025 to face prosecution. Authorities and media reports have linked him to illegal online gambling and fraud, and his public statements about his own activities have been contested."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Names and early life",
      "text": "Records give his birthplace as Shaodong County in China's Hunan province. Chinese sources disagree on his birth date: a Chinese encyclopedia entry gives 16 January 1982, while sanctions databases and the Wikidata record give 26 January 1982. According to Chinese reporting, his family moved to Guilin when he was a teenager, and he later worked in a series of jobs, including driving, vehicle repair, sales and security work. In his twenties he went to the Philippines to do business.\n\nHis names vary across sources. Besides \"She Zhijiang\", he has been identified as She Lunkai (佘伦凯), Tang Kriang Kai (a Khmer-language name), and Dylan She. Chinese reporting says he acquired Cambodian nationality around 2017, and a sanctions record lists both Cambodian and Myanmar nationality."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Business activities",
      "text": "Chinese and international media describe him as the head of the Yatai International Holdings Group, whose operations were reported to span real estate, urban management and leisure services in Cambodia, the Philippines and Myanmar. Around 2017 the company was reported to have signed an agreement with a Border Guard Force in Myanmar's Kayin State to develop a special economic zone near Myawaddy, promoted under the name \"Yatai New City\". Reports say the project was later investigated by Myanmar authorities in 2020 over suspected illegal cross-border gambling. A sanctions listing describes him as the owner of KK Park, a compound in Myanmar that has been reported as a centre of scam operations; he has denied being the owner of that complex."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Arrest and extradition",
      "text": "Interpol issued a red notice concerning him in May 2021. He was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand, in August 2022, after travelling to the city at the invitation of Thai and other officials. A Bangkok criminal court ruled in May 2023 that he could be extradited to China. He appealed, but on 10 November 2025 a Thai appeals court upheld the lower ruling. Thai police escorted him to a flight two days later, and he was returned to China on 12 November 2025."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Allegations and reported activities",
      "text": "According to Chinese media, a court in Yantai, Shandong, ruled in 2014 that he had illegally run an online lottery business aimed at Chinese citizens in the Philippines. Chinese reporting says he began running online lottery and betting platforms for Chinese users around 2012. Reports also describe online gambling platforms that operated between 2018 and 2021 and that reportedly attracted large numbers of users. Thai authorities said he would be tried in China for conduct including operating illegal gambling. Some media and official reports further describe the spread of online gambling, telecommunications fraud and human trafficking in the compounds linked to his businesses. These claims come from prosecutors, sanctions listings and press investigations; he has not been tried on them in a court outside China, and the details remain disputed.\n\nThe United States and the United Kingdom have placed him on their sanctions lists, which was reported in 2025 and 2026 respectively."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Public statements",
      "text": "In 2023 he appeared in a video from prison in which he denied being the head of KK Park and denied involvement in telecommunications fraud. In a September 2024 documentary produced by Al Jazeera, he said that he had been recruited by the Chinese government in 2016 while living in the Philippines, and that a former Philippine mayor, Alice Guo, was also a Chinese agent. Guo denied knowing him. Philippine legislative inquiries examined his travel to the Philippines; a Philippine legislator said that he had visited the country 21 times between 2011 and 2020. These claims have not been independently verified.\n\nSources"
    }
  ],
  "links": [
    "china",
    "cambodia",
    "philippines",
    "myanmar",
    "bangkok",
    "thailand"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "佘智江 - 维基百科，自由的百科全书",
      "url": "https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hans/%E4%BD%98%E6%99%BA%E6%B1%9F"
    },
    {
      "title": "She Zhijiang",
      "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Zhijiang"
    },
    {
      "title": "She Zhijiang - Wikidata",
      "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116956500"
    },
    {
      "title": "Zhijiang She",
      "url": "https://www.opensanctions.org/entities/Q116956500/"
    },
    {
      "title": "佘智江（生于湖南，后获柬埔寨国籍）出镜：有些人老叫我“老大”，我觉得不好，我说实在不行叫我“江湖哥”吧|犯罪|缅甸|泰国|湖南省_网易订阅",
      "url": "https://www.163.com/dy/article/L8KLL2OO05129QAF.html"
    },
    {
      "title": "一文回顾佘智江“血色黑产路”：从修车工到全球通缉犯_腾讯新闻",
      "url": "https://news.qq.com/rain/a/20251113A0555A00"
    },
    {
      "title": "起底跨境赌诈头目佘智江：14岁辍学学编程，干过20多种职业，怀揣4万“起家”_凤凰网",
      "url": "https://news.ifeng.com/c/8oFjP1ujWbA"
    },
    {
      "title": "Gatchalian: Chinese 'spy' She Zhijiang, 'handler' traveled multiple times to PH",
      "url": "https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/923005/gatchalian-chinese-spy-she-zhijiang-handler-traveled-multiple-times-to-ph/story/"
    }
  ],
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
}