- Programme
- Global Human Rights
- Designated
- 14 Oct 2025
- Legal basis
- The Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020
- Stated grounds
- There are reasonable grounds to suspect that Cambodian Heng Xin Real Estate Group (“HXRE”) is an involved person within the meaning of the Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020 on the basis of the following grounds
: (1): HXRE is associated with persons who are or have been involved in human rights abuses, namely CHEN Zhi, Prince Group, Jin Bei, ING Dara, and ZHU Jack; (2) HXRE has been responsible for, engaging in, facilitating or providing support for human rights abuses, specifically serious abuses of the right not to be subjected to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, and of the right to be free from slavery, not to be held in servitude or required to perform forced or compulsory labour. Specifically, HXRE is involved in the development and operation of a scam centre in Cambodia. The treatment of individuals in this scam centre amounts to a serious abuse of the right not to be subjected to cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment, and of the right to be free from slavery, not to be held in servitude or required to perform compulsory labour.
- Source
- UK Sanctions List (FCDO)
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026