Police in Mongolia have arrested 800 Chinese citizens as part of a major probe into cyber crime.
Raids in the capital of Ulaanbaatar on Tuesday also resulted in computer equipment and mobile phones being seized by authorities.
Gerel Dorjpalam, who heads Mongolia’s General Intelligence Agency, said those apprehended are suspected of crimes ranging from fraud and identity theft, to money laundering and computer hacking.
The raids, first reported by Reuters, followed two months of investigations into the cyber crime ring and followed similar arrests of 324 Chinese nationals in the Philippines last month.
“As of this moment, we suspect they are linked to money laundering,” Mr Dorjpalam said in a media briefing on Wednesday. “We are looking into the matter.”