Forget Macau, dirty Chinese cash has a new home: Southeast Asia’s scam hubs
With the junkets of Asia’s gambling capital ‘decimated’ by an anti-corruption crackdown, money launderers have shifted focus to more loosely regulated casinos in Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines and Myanmar.
- An anti-corruption crackdown in Asia’s gambling capital has decimated its once-booming junket industry, scattering financial criminals to the winds
- They’ve wound up in the shady special economic zones of Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar – and the loosely regulated casinos of the Philippines and Vietnam