Weidong “Bill” Guan, the Chief Financial Officer of The Epoch Times, has been arrested and charged with orchestrating a $67 million international money laundering scheme. Federal prosecutors allege that Guan, 61, led a complex operation involving the use of digital assets to purchase crime proceeds, including fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits, which were then laundered through various bank and crypto accounts linked to The Epoch Times and Guan personally. The scheme reportedly caused the media company’s revenue to surge from approximately $15 million to $62 million between 2019 and 2020. The indictment does not list the specific digital assets allegedly used in the charges.
As stated in the indictment,
“From at least in or about 2020, through in or about May 2024, GUAN, while working as the Chief Financial Officer of a multinational media company headquartered in New York, New York (the “Media Company”), conspired with others to participate in a sprawling, transna
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