S'porean, 32, ex-superyacht captain, arrested for links to Cambodia's Prince Holding Group scam syndicate

The Singapore police have arrested a former superyacht captain linked to Prince Holding Group's Chen Zhi, the alleged Cambodian scam tycoon.

On Dec. 11, the U.S.-sanctioned former captain, Nigel Tang Wan Bao Nabil, 32, was arrested upon his return to Singapore, the police told Bloomberg.

The Business Times reported that Tang is currently out on bail.

He was arrested for his links to Prince Holding Group and his "suspected involvement in money laundering offences".

U.S. authorities are looking into the embattled Prince Holding Group for allegedly being a transnational criminal ring that ran scam compounds using slave labour, reported BT.

Tang captained 53m superyacht

Tang held many roles that did not explicitly linked him to Prince Holding Group.

He was involved in two yacht companies, Warpcapital Yacht Management and Quantum Yacht Asia, where he was the operations head and director for the former and sole director of the latter. 

Tang captained a 174-foot (53m) superyacht, Nonni II, owned by Chen who frequently held parties on it.

He was also the head of operations of Capital Zone Warehousing, a Chen-controlled firm, which offered tax-exempt storage solutions for luxury goods like fine teas, cigars, wines and whiskies.

Other businesses he was involved with included Cloud Xero Management and Capital Zone Warehousing.

Tang was one of three Singaporeans sanctioned by the U.S. in October 2025 for their involvement with Prince Holding Group and its founder and chairman, Chen.

The Cambodian conglomerate stole and laundered billions from victims of online "pig butchering" scams, reported BT.

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