MAJOR COMPANIES FACE STRUCTURAL EXPOSURE TO SOUTH EAST ASIAN ORGANISED CRIME
August 1st, 2019
DOING business in many southeast Asian countries is becoming increasingly challenging, with major companies being exposed to increasingly sophisticated financial crime and widespread corruption. Poorna Rodrigo reports.
COMMERCIAL crime in southeast Asia is fuelled by the fact that it contains wealthy and medium-income well-regulated jurisdictions, alongside weakly-regulated, corruption-heavy poorer countries. This has encouraged transnational crime groups to exploit the latter, as a base for maximising sometimes legal, buts always tainted, profits in the ...
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