CHAIRMAN MAST LEADS SANCTIONS LETTER URGING STATE DEPT AND TREASURY TO INVESTIGATE SOUTHEAST ASIAN SCAMMERS AND THEIR ENABLERS FOR SANCTIONS

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 -- The House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman issued the following statement:

WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast (R-FL) and Select Committee on China Chairman John Moolenaar (R-MI) sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent asking them to investigate and, if determined to meet the statutory criteria, impose sanctions on foreign persons credibly linked to online scam centers. These sanctions investigations would significantly degrade the financial, business, and political structures in Southeast Asia complicit in online scams that have scammed Americans out of tens of billions of dollars annually.

"Americans are being scammed on...