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trollied on Nov 20, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Hide a Billion Dollars

A good modern day story of how not to hide $4 billion is Jho Low: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jho_Low

The book that chronicles (Billion Dollar Whale) is a real page turner, with lots of it being unbelievable.

Seen The Wolf Of Wall Street? He funded its production with his stolen $... :)

jeffwilcox on Nov 21, 2019 | [–]

Agreed. I also enjoyed this short summary write-up about part of the book... https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2019/09/08/how-to-steal-bi...

9nGQluzmnq3M on Nov 20, 2019 | [–]

The article mentions him (but not by name) as the launderer of Malaysian PM Najib's loot.

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