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Prince Holding Group

Native name	Khmer:ព្រីនស៍ ហូលឌីង គ្រុប Chinese:太子集团控股
Industry	Real estate development, financial services, consumer services
Founded	2015
Headquarters	Plov Koh Pich, Phum 14,Tonlé Bassac Commune,Chamkar Mon District,Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Key people	Chairman:Chen Zhi
Subsidiaries	Prince Real Estate Group, Prince Huan Yu Real Estate Group, Prince Bank
Website	www.princeholdinggroup.com

Prince Group, officiallyPrince Holding Group is acompany based inCambodia. Described as "one of Cambodia's largestconglomerates",^[1] the company has interests in various sectors such as real estate (Prince Real Estate Group), financial services (Prince Bank) and airlines (Cambodia Airways).^[2][3][4] In 2025, it and its chairmanChen Zhi were sanctioned by the United States and United Kingdom for their alleged role in operatingscam centers and online fraud.

The group was founded byChen Zhi in 2015.^[5] The Prince Group invested heavily inSihanoukville, which became a "Chinese casino boomtown", offering physical and online casinos targeted at the mainland Chinese market, where gambling is illegal.^[6]

In 2017, Chen and Prince Group co-founded the Jinbei Casino^[7][8] withSar Sokha, a Cambodian politician who later became Deputy Prime Minister.^[9][10]

The businesses flourished until 2019, when online gambling was criminalized in Cambodia, followed shortly by the travel restrictions of theCOVID-19 pandemic and the resulting collapse in inbound travel to Cambodia.^[6]

In 2021, Prince Group was given the Corporate Social Responsibility Model Award by China Finance Summit (CFS).^[11]

In May 2020,Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau began investigating the Prince Group's connections to online gambling andmoney laundering. In July 2022, a court inWangcang County,Sichuan alleged that the Prince Group had profited at least 2 billionChinese yuan (US$700 million) from illegal gambling since 2016. A Prince Group spokesman denied the allegations, saying the Jinbei Group was unrelated and other entities were fraudulently impersonating the Prince Group.^[6]

Assets belonging to the group were frozen in October 2025 as part of an investigation by theDepartment of Justice intowire fraud and money laundering by Chen. These assets included 127,271bitcoin (worth over $14 billion, making this the largestcryptocurrency seizure to date) and 19 properties in London.^[12][13]Hong Kong subsequently frozeHK$2.75 billion (US$354 million) of assets tied to Prince Group,^[14] withSingapore seizingS$150 million (US$115 million) of Prince Group assets including six properties, 11 cars and a yacht.^[15]

In January 2026, Cambodia stated that Chen had been arrested, stripped of his Cambodian citizenship, and extradited to China with two others to face charges.^[16] The central bank of Cambodia also ordered theliquidation of Prince Bank.^[16]

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