China’s largest bank crime involves 410 billion yuan

Beijing: China has rated a banking case, as the biggest banking case of their country. Police in China’s Zhejiang province has conformed the news. This case had involved   transactions totalling to 410 billion yuan ($64 billion), a media report says.

At least 100 suspects from eight gangs have been detained since the investigation was launched in September 2014, China Daily reported.

The gangs leader Zhao is operating different fake companies in Hong Kong. The companies were involved in foreign exchange transactions and money laundering.

In December 2014, arrest warrants were issued for 56 suspects and more than 3,000 bank accounts were frozen. It took almost a year for police to sort through the over 1.3 million suspicious transactions.

China has faced an “increasingly arduous and complicated” problem with illegal financial institutions often used for laundering money obtained from corruption, online gambling and fraud, according to the public security ministry.

Police have shut down 37 such banks since August