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Category: Transnational Crime

Posted onSeptember 17, 2018November 19, 2018China Goes Global

How China’s Biggest Bank Got Caught Up In A Money Laundering Scandal

Two years ago Spanish police raided the Madrid branch of China’s biggest Bank ICBC on allegations of a major money laundering operation taking place there.…

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Posted onFebruary 12, 2017China Goes Global

How corruption, geo-politics and the IMDB Scandal is pushing Malaysia towards China

A dark shadow has been cast over US – Malaysian ties in past few years following the revelation of a scandal involving significant members of…

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Posted onDecember 12, 2016China Goes Global

Treasure Hunt: Poly Group and the search for China’s stolen art

Towards the of the Second Opium War in 1860 British and French soldiers ransacked and looted the ancient and opulent Summer Palace just outside of…

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Posted onAugust 10, 2015August 10, 2015Transnational Crime

Piracy in South East Asia

A few years ago Somali pirates were all over the news, films and documentaries were made and then quietly the story disappeared from the headlines.…

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Posted onAugust 29, 2014August 29, 2014Country Investment Analysis

Why Invest in Post Conflict Countries?

“Buy when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your own” – Baron Rothschild Post-conflict countries remain off the radar for nearly…

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Posted onAugust 25, 2014September 15, 2014China Goes Global

China Goes Global: Tales From The Dark Side

In 2011 an eighteen year old Hmong woman from Northern Vietnam arrived at her remote hill village, bewildered and bedraggled, only reaching it after four…

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Posted onJune 11, 2014June 11, 2014Transnational Crime

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Big-Money World of Private Security

Source: SecurityDegreeHub.com

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Posted onFebruary 12, 2014July 30, 2014Investing on the Frontier

Bitcoin and Emerging Markets: The Future of Currency or a False Dawn?

Emerging market currencies is a subject I tend to stay away from, its not my particular area of expertise and others can cover the subject…

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Posted onAugust 12, 2013August 14, 2013Culture

My Five Favourite Smugglers in Film and Fiction

Its holiday time so I decided get away from the serious stuff, plus I promised a follow up article to my top five films on…

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Posted onFebruary 19, 2013May 2, 2013Transnational Crime

Chinese Organised Crime Goes Global

In August 2012 a chartered plane brought 37 Chinese citizens living in Angola back to China in handcuffs, to face charges ranging from kidnapping, robbery…

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