Chinese Communist Party bounty hunters roam Australia

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Via Banking Day comes Nathan Lynch of Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence:

Chinese law enforcement agencies have resorted to the use of private sector “bounty hunters” to track down assets in Australia that are linked to Mainland corruption, as diplomatic tensions flare over money laundering and capital flight.

Australia is growing increasingly concerned about the use of civil asset recovery agents, or private “bounty hunters”, to bypass official channels for mutual legal assistance in these matters.

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