Chinese state-linked gangs ‘using students to launder money in UK’

The limited number of prosecutions in the UK have been of networks moving tens of millions of pounds and individual money mules depositing six-figure sums. However, it is likely that the true scale of Chinese money laundering is much greater than this and is continuing to grow. Based on my research, it is likely that these groups are laundering, at the very least, hundreds of millions of pounds related to organised crime activity in the UK.”