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Money Laundering Bust Puts Foreign Wealth in Singapore on Notice

Crackdown the biggest since Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal

Aug 18, 2023
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By: Toh Han Shih

The massive crackdown on money laundering in Singapore that began on August 15 when the target of an arrest leaped from his second-floor window to hide in a storm drain raises deeply uncomfortable questions regarding the background of some of the ultra-high net worth foreign individuals living in the country, particularly Chinese, and ma…

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