Hong Kong arrests six in US$322mil money laundering case

This April 22, 2021 photo shows some of the mobile phones, banking security authentication tokens and cheque books seized by an operation conducted by Hong Kong Customs. - INFORMATION SERVICES DEPARTMENT

HONG KONG (Bloomberg): Hong Kong authorities arrested six people suspected of money laundering involving HK$2.5 billion (US$322 million), in the latest case to hit the Asian financial hub.

Five men and one woman aged 23 to 50 were suspected of laundering money through 59 personal accounts at nine banks in Hong Kong, the Customs and Excise Department said in a briefing Thursday (April 22). They were involved in over 2,600 transactions from January 2018 to February 2020, it said, without naming the banks.