Australian motorcycle gangs expanding into south-east Asia to get slice of drug market
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Australian motorcycle gangs expanding into south-east Asia to get slice of drug market
The UN estimates that the interconnected illicit methamphetamine market in south-east Asia, east Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Bangladesh is worth up to US$61.4bn a year. Photograph: Tracey Nearmy/AAP
Casinos, in particular, are used as money laundering ventures. As of January 2019, there were 230 licensed casinos in south-east Asia. Of those, 150 were in Cambodia – compared with only 57 in 2014.
"Australian outlaw motorcycle gangs have expanded into south-east Asia to take advantage of a booming, multibillion-dollar methamphetamine export market in the region, a landmark report from the United Nations has warned."
"The most detailed look yet into the drug market in the region, the report explains how criminal networks in the region use lightly regulated free-trade zones, lax border control, money laundering through casinos and corruption to traffic “unfathomable quantities” of “high-profit methamphetamine” into neighbouring countries including Australia."
"While some illicit trade crosses borders clandestinely along jungle tracks or unofficial seaports, most illegal commodities are transported along the same infrastructure as legitimate trade."
"“In the Mekong region, many casinos are located in areas characterised by poor governance and political instability, or in border regions with significant crime or armed insurgency problems, and they operate illegally or quasi-legally.”
Full https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... rug-market
Re: Australian motorcycle gangs expanding into south-east Asia to get slice of drug market
Lol. Obviously they haven’t come across the Cambodian Rebels. They let anyone with a scooter in!
I doubt they’re involved in anything organized!
Lol again.
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I doubt they’re involved in anything organized!
Lol again.
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Re: Australian motorcycle gangs expanding into south-east Asia to get slice of drug market
It amazes me these articles have all the facts and figures but the authorities can't/don't do anything to stop it
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What's a poor man do when the blues keep following him around.(Smoking Dynamite)
Re: Australian motorcycle gangs expanding into south-east Asia to get slice of drug market
aussie mc's they buy drugs in thailand then smuggle to australia but majority of drugs smuggled from thailand to australia is not aussies, it is thai or chinese. just some 1 month ago a thai politician arrested for trying to traffick 1 ton of meth to australia
Re: Australian motorcycle gangs expanding into south-east Asia to get slice of drug market
Is that a fact.
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