Chinese Money Laundering Networks (CMLN) are organized illicit financial service providers operating in the cryptocurrency ecosystem and associated with Chinese criminal laundering infrastructure. By 2025, they had become a dominant force in illicit on-chain finance, evolving from earlier marketplace-style arrangements into full-service criminal enterprises that provide laundering-as-a-service and other specialized support functions. Their services have been used to facilitate proceeds from fraud and scams, support funds linked to North Korean hacking activity, enable sanctions evasion, and assist terrorist financing. CMLN function as professionalized infrastructure providers within the broader cybercrime and illicit-finance ecosystem rather than as a conventional intrusion-focused threat group. High-confidence reporting supports their role in laundering and financial enablement, but does not directly establish hands-on keyboard intrusion, ransomware deployment, or destructive cyber operations by the networks themselves.
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