Singapore’s biggest money-laundering case has links to Chinese gamblers
It also sheds light on how Asia’s transnational crime gangs operate
When police showed up at Su Haijin’s lavish apartment in Singapore one early morning in August, he leapt from his second-floor balcony. The ethnic-Chinese businessman was found hiding in a drain with broken legs. The police meanwhile arrested nine other suspects in what Singapore has described as one of the world’s biggest money-laundering cases. It has since seized or frozen more than $2bn in luxury properties, cars, gold bars and cash.
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This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “High rollers and dirty money”
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