{"id":10719,"date":"2021-01-20T07:48:55","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T07:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3118479\/police-arrest-seven-hong-kong-bankers-hk63-billion"},"modified":"2021-01-20T07:48:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T07:48:55","slug":"police-arrest-seven-hong-kong-bankers-in-hk6-3-billion-money-laundering-bust-the-biggest-case-in-nearly-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/police-arrest-seven-hong-kong-bankers-in-hk6-3-billion-money-laundering-bust-the-biggest-case-in-nearly-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest seven Hong Kong bankers in HK$6.3 billion money-laundering bust \u2013 the biggest case in nearly a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"Seven current and former Hong Kong bankers were arrested in a series of raids on Tuesday as police moved against an international money-laundering syndicate alleged to have handled HK$6.3 billion (US$813 million) in criminal proceeds \u2013 the biggest such case in nearly a decade.Superintendent Yip Wing-lam of the commercial crime bureau said the enterprise, which moved the funds through local bank accounts over the past four years, was the first known to involve Hong Kong bankers.Officers also\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/law-and-crime\/article\/3118479\/police-arrest-seven-hong-kong-bankers-hk63-billion\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven current and former Hong Kong bankers were arrested in a series of raids on Tuesday as police moved against an international money-laundering syndicate alleged to have handled HK$6.3 billion (US$813 million) in criminal proceeds \u2013 the biggest such&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":773,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10720,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10719\/revisions\/10720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}