$100M Tied to Money Laundering Suspect Reached Trump-Backed WLFI, NYT Reports
TL;DR
- WLFI received $100M from the Aqua1 Foundation, linked to Guren “Bobby” Zhou, who is under investigation in the United Kingdom for money laundering.
- Up to $75M of that capital flowed to entities controlled by the Trump family and affiliates of co-founder Zach Witkoff.
- Two of Zhou’s employees were indicted in September 2025; one has already pleaded guilty and the trial is set for 2028.
The New York Times revealed that the largest individual purchase of governance tokens of WLFI —the decentralized finance platform co-founded by the Trump family— traces back to Guren “Bobby” Zhou, a Chinese businessman under active investigation by the United Kingdom on suspicion of money laundering. The transaction, worth $100 million, was executed on June 26 through the Aqua1 Foundation, headquartered in the United Arab Emirates.
When the transaction was completed, Aqua1 was publicly identified as World Liberty Financial’s largest individual investor at the time. What was unknown then, and now forms the core of the Times report, is who was funding that capital.
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