Lords of Jade

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How a narcotics kingpin and his associates used opaque company structures to take a dominant role in Myanmar?s most valuable natural resource business.....SUMMARY: "Myanmar?s jade business may be the biggest natural resource heist in modern history. The sums of money involved are almost incomprehensibly high and the levels of accountability are at rock bottom. One of the most dominant and dangerous groups involved is a collection of companies controlled by Myanmar?s most famous drug lord, Wei Hsueh Kang. This report shows how Wei Hsueh Kang and his associates, following the template of terrorists, kleptocrats and mafia the world over, have used a web of opaque company structures to build, and disguise, a jade empire. ..."

Source/publisher: 

Global Witness

Date of Publication: 

2015-12-03

Date of entry: 

2015-12-06

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English

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pdf

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1.58 MB