In a series of so far four articles with Thailand relevance, the blog Whale Hunting, begins its first article, “Thaksin’s Fixer and a Cambodian Empire’s Push to Control Thai Energy,” with this:The criminal South African fixer for former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is at the center of a web of front companies across Asia. This network has been spending hundreds of millions of dollars to buy up stakes in prominent Thai firms, raising questions about the source of funds. Whale Hunting describes itself as “a newsletter and podcast delving into the secret worlds of money and power that we became obsessed with during our investigation into the globe-sprawling 1MDB scandal.”The second article is “The Super Yachts of a Global Criminal,” and the third is “KuCoin Tries to Silence Our Investigation with Legal Threats.”The fourth is “Indicted Crypto Firm KuCoin and a Thaksin Ally Allegedly Built a Money-Laundering Network Across Southeast Asia.” It begins:A criminal network connected to disgraced crypto firm KuCoin and a Thai political dynasty is moving hundreds of millions of dollars in dirty money across Southeast Asia, and U.S. law enforcement wants to stop it. Update: A reader points out we missed the first story in the series: “Exposed: The $1.5B Money Laundering Network Behind Thailand’s Shinawatra Dynasty,” which begins:Inside the $1.5B shadow empire: How convicted criminal Benjamin Mauerberger became the financial fixer for Thailand’s Shinawatra dynasty, operating from Cambodia’s crime hubs to Manhattan penthouses—and why the US is watching closely.