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last updated:
9 September, 2024
Indonesian immigration officers escort recently-arrested Chinese national Yan Zhenxing, during a press conference in Jakarta on December 5. Yan is on Interpol Red Notice list and wanted in China on allegations of laundering money for an online gambling syndicate. Photo: AP
Singapore

Singapore explains why it did not arrest Chinese fugitive on Interpol Red Notice

Police said they do not have sufficient evidence to investigate the alleged money launderer, who was arrested when he travelled to Indonesia.

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Singapore

Chinese fugitive’s arrest sparks questions on Singapore’s Interpol obligations

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Indonesia

Filipino fugitive arrested in Bali after US$67 million scam

Britain

Family members on trial for murder of 10-year-old British-Pakistani girl

Urfan Sharif, 42, is on trial accused of Sara Sharif’s murder alongside his partner, Beinash Batool, and brother, Faisal Malik.

A court artist sketch shows Sara Sharif’s father Urfan Sharif (right) and her uncle Faisal Malik appearing via video-link from Belmarsh prison, at the Old Bailey in London on Monday. Photo: PA via AP
The Philippines

Philippine pastor’s arrest seen as major blow to Duterte’s political fortunes

Critics of the former president say the arrest of Apollo Quiboloy is a sign the ‘Dutertes’ walls of impunity are crumbling’.

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Asean

Japan demands Denmark extradite activist over whaling ship clash, despite furore

Paul Watson’s arrest in Greenland sparked protests and calls for his release, while Japan insists on upholding international law and a fair trial.

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The Philippines

Prisoner swap: Indonesia offered fugitive Alice Guo in exchange for Gregor Haas

Indonesian officials confirmed discussions of a swap for the Australian drug suspect in exchange for Guo’s extradition from the country.

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Former Bamban Mayor Alice Guo. Photo: Facebook / Alice Guo
Malaysia

How Tedy Teow, the fraudster dubbed ‘Jho Low 2’, allegedly swindled millions

Teow’s MBI Group duped thousands with fake high-return investments, leading to his extradition to China on massive fraud charges.

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Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong police arrest 27 in crackdown on money-laundering gangs

Syndicates are using cash and cryptocurrencies, as well as transferring criminal proceeds multiple times, to cover their tracks, police say.

Hong Kong politics

Opinion | Resuming Hong Kong-West extradition pacts would be in everyone’s interest

Current impasse between Hong Kong and Western nations – though limited – can benefit only criminals in the long term.

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Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung talks about Hong Kong’s connections with international police forces, at the SCMP offices in Causeway Bay on Juily 25. Photo: Dickson Lee
Crime in Hong Kong

The hunt for crypto promoter Wong Ching-kit, Hong Kong’s ‘Coin Young Master’

Wong, 30, was one of the influencers promoting the JPEX cryptocurrency trading platform, implicated in one of Hong Kong’s biggest fraud cases.

Wong Ching-kit is wanted for one count of fraud and two counts of theft in Hong Kong. Photo: Dickson Lee
Crime in Hong Kong

Interpol issues red notice for Hong Kong crypto promoter linked to deception case

Wong Ching-kit, known as ‘Coin Young Master’, wanted for one count of fraud and two counts of theft in Hong Kong, according to notice.

Americas and the Caribbean

Brazilian to become first head of Interpol from developing world

Brazilian police official Valdecy Urquiza will succeed Juergen Stock of Germany to lead Interpol from 2025 to 2030.

Crime

Multinational operation breaks up scheme for sabotaging Interpol red notices

The FBI and European crime agencies mounted raids on a group suspected of running a scheme to pay millions of dollars in bribes to officials in return for blocking Interpol red notices.

The Interpol logo at the international police agency headquarters in Lyon, central France. File photo: AP
Crime in Hong Kong

Ex-professor wanted by Hong Kong anti-corruption agency detained in Poland

Yeung Lam-lung, 59, detained by Polish authorities at international airport, Interpol told Hong Kong’s ICAC.

Yeung Lam-lung used to work at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Photo: HKUST
The Philippines

Marcos said the ICC couldn’t prosecute Duterte over his drugs war. And now?

His press secretary insists Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jnr’s stance on allowing his predecessor’s arrest hasn’t changed. But a new justice department legal briefing suggests otherwise.

China’s Communist Party

China investigates ex-senior justice official and Interpol envoy Liu Zhiqiang

Beijing’s top anti-graft agency says Liu, who once served on Interpol executive committee, is ‘suspected of serious violations of discipline and law’ which is widely understood to mean corruption.

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China’s Communist Party

China names high-profile law enforcer as assistant public security minister

Hu Binchen, director of International Cooperation Bureau, and Liu Zhongyi, director of Criminal Investigation Bureau, appointed assistant ministers at China’s Ministry of Public Security.

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Hu Binchen was among two Chinese officials who jointly launched the US-China Counternarcotics Working Group during a visit by Jen Daskal to Beijing in January. Photo: Criminal Investigation Police University of China
Crime

Serbia detains two people suspected of killing missing toddler

Both suspects have ‘confessed to the crime’ of killing two-year-old Danka Ilic who went missing on March 26, Search for the Ilic’s body was still under way.

Crime in Hong Kong

Hong Kong police tell firms to tighten cybersecurity as more are hacked

Five-month police operation revealed numerous instances of safety threats and lapses that hackers could exploit.

Corruption in China

Chinese banker jailed for life in US$483 million corruption case

‘Significant damage’ inflicted through fraudulent loans, misappropriated repayments and the siphoning of bank funds to other accounts, court says.

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Xu Guojun’s personal assets were confiscated, and he was ordered to surrender all his illegal gains. Photo: Intermediate People’s Court of Jiangmen
South Korea

South Korean church’s practices in spotlight as Fiji steps up crackdown

Grace Road Church has been accused of being a cult and its leaders charged with abuse, but its companies have also had a major impact on Fiji’s economy.

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A Grace Road Group restaurant in the upmarket Damodar City shopping mall in Suva, with posters of its hashtag campaign posted everywhere. Photo: Kalinga Seneviratne
Crime in Hong Kong

Arrest of suspected murderer puts Hong Kong’s long crime wave back in spotlight

Arrest brings back memories of gunfights on the streets between police and armed gangs in 1980s-90s.

South Korea

South Korean ‘cult’ members to be deported by Fiji after ‘torture’ allegations

Top members of the “Grace Road Cult” from South Korea will be deported from Fiji following years of allegations of the movement’s involvement in bizarre and violent rituals.

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Middle East

Iraq seeks Interpol alerts for former officials over US$2.5 billion tax theft

Iraq said it was working to extradite people involved in the theft from countries including the UAE, Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and also called on the US and UK ‘to hand over fugitive suspects’.

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The Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France. Iraq plans to ask Interpol to issue international alerts seeking the arrest of former senior officials. Photo: AP
Myanmar

Exclusive | ‘We can kill you here’: inside the lawless Chinese-run scam hubs of Myanmar

From Shwe Kokko to KK Park, a slew of brutal criminal enterprises now dot the Moei River at the Thai border, where unsuspecting victims from around the globe are trafficked, tortured and forced to defraud strangers online.

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The dock at “Gate 25” north of Myanmar’s Myawaddy township. Even the eight victims who spoke to This Week in Asia about the severe physical abuse they endured inside the compound did not know its true name. Photo: Alastair McCready
Australia

‘Unacceptable’: Australia hits out at Hong Kong bounty for security law suspects

‘It’s just unacceptable’, said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, adding Australia ‘will disagree’ with China ‘where we must. And we do disagree over human rights issues’. Of the eight suspects wanted under the national security law, two are based in Australia.

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Crime in Hong Kong

Exclusive | ‘Dozens of Hong Kong residents’ on police national security ‘wanted’ list

Sources say dozens of Hong Kong residents wanted by police for alleged national security offences had fled city; majority in North America, Britain or Australia.

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