{"id":30282,"date":"2019-01-23T16:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T16:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30282"},"modified":"2019-01-23T16:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T16:22:12","slug":"macau-syndicate-smuggled-4-4-billion-out-of-china-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=30282","title":{"rendered":"Macau syndicate smuggled $4.4 billion out of China, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Hong Kong (CNN)<\/cite>Chinese authorities say they have busted an underground money-smuggling ring used to launder more than $4.4 billion through the Asian gambling hub of Macau.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The case is a high-profile example of Beijing&#8217;s crackdown on attempts to dodge its capital controls, which it has tightened in recent years to prevent money from flooding out of the country and destabilizing the economy.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pj.gov.mo\/Web\/\/Policia\/201901\/20190108\/8294.html?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Macau&#8217;s Judicial Police said<\/a> the syndicate was formed in 2016 and relied on point-of-sale machines &#8212; the devices used by shops to conduct transactions with credit cards or debit cards &#8212; which were smuggled in from China. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong (CNN)Chinese authorities say they have busted an underground money-smuggling ring used to launder more than $4.4 billion through the Asian gambling hub of Macau.The case is a high-profile example of Beijing&#8217;s crackdown on attempts to dodge its capital controls, which it has tightened in recent years to prevent money from flooding out of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":30283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}