China laundering Mob money through U.S. casinos

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I read this today in the US Attorneys Office, it's not really alleged it was state sponsored, a fairly standard drug/illegal money put into an illegal money transmitting business, which involved gamblers, a very typical scheme.
 

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I read this today in the US Attorneys Office, it's not really alleged it was state sponsored, a fairly standard drug/illegal money put into an illegal money transmitting business, which involved gamblers, a very typical scheme.
So basically like Hawala system that terrorists abused?
 

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It seems like it,

As admitted in the plea agreements entered today before U.S. Magistrate Judge William V. Gallo, Han and Zhang would collect U.S. dollars (in cash) from various third-parties in the United States and deliver that cash to a customer, typically a gambler from China who could not readily access cash in the United States due to capital controls that limit the amount of Chinese yuan an individual can convert to foreign currency at $50,000 per year. Upon receipt of the U.S. dollars, the customer (i.e., the gambler) would transfer the equivalent value of yuan (using banking apps on their cell phones in the United States) from the customer’s Chinese bank account to a Chinese bank account designated by defendant Han or Zhang. For facilitating these transactions, Zhang and Han were paid a commission based on the monetary value illegally transferred.

Not quite a Hawala , which is more trust based, with participants holding money for others, and passing around a sum internationally as such.
 
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