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Pics are Zhao Wei, and the Kings Romans Casino in Laos. Still digging on this. Dirty in every imaginable way - human trafficking, drugs, weapons, even endangered animals.

https://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-treasury-department-places-sanctions-on-zhao-wei-criminal-organization/

the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) targeted with its latest designations.

"The Zhao Wei crime network engages in an array of horrendous illicit activities, including human trafficking and child prostitution, drug trafficking, and wildlife trafficking," said Sigal Mandelker, under secretary of treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence. "We are targeting key figures in this transnational criminal organization, which stretches from the Kings Romans Casino in Laos throughout Southeast Asia."

The network also engages in money laundering and bribery in the Golden Triangle Special Economic Zone, an area known for opium production.

"OFAC is designating the Zhao Wei network as part of a broader strategy to disrupt the financial infrastructure of transnational criminal organizations that pose a threat to the United States and our allies," Mandelker added.

The Treasury Department imposed sanctions on four individuals and three entities across Laos, Thailand, and Hong Kong for involvement with the Zhao Wei network. The U.S. assets of all entities designated by the OFAC are now frozen, and Americans are forbidden from dealing with them.

Treasury officials said the network operates largely through the Kings Romans Casino to store and distribute heroin, methamphetamine, and other narcotics for illicit networks, in addition to human and wildlife trafficking and child prostitution.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2131458/two-hong-kong-companies-named-hub-international-drugs-and

"The nine-year-old casino – built largely to cater to tourists from southern China – is not far from where 13 Chinese sailors on two drugs-laden cargo ships were murdered in 2011, the deadliest assault on Chinese nationals overseas in modern times.

The US said the criminal network organises the storage and distribution of heroin, methamphetamine and other drugs for illicit networks.

Since 2014, Thai, Laotian and Chinese authorities have seized large drug shipments that have been traced to the casino."

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The more I'm reading about the Chinese, the angrier I'm getting about the Democrats and the "muh Russia" nagging.

Pic related: Aerial shot of "Golden Triangle"

This Zhao Wei network would create a huge demand for money launderers. Hmm.

Confusing matters (at first, at least) is the existence of a female "singer" named Zhao Wei who's made herself famous for stock trading fraud, so she's cluttering up the search results.

https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-ff-laos-golden-triangle-20150908-story.html

What's the Golden Triangle?

"Golden Triangle, the area where Thailand, Laos and Myanmar meet and which is known for opium cultivation and drug smuggling.

In 2007, the Laotian government gave the Hong Kong-based company Kings Romans Group a 99-year land lease, and Kings Romans, in return, promised to turn the area around. In a 15-minute promotional video uploaded to Chinese video-sharing websites in 2013, the company boasted of a forthcoming "integrated trade and tourism zone" replete with luxury resorts, spas, a golf course, a yacht club and helicopter tours.

Yet critics say the zone has instead become a mecca of gambling, prostitution and illicit trade, raising questions about the spillover effects of China's growing economic clout beyond its borders. The terms of the lease remain unclear."

Their "employees" are basically low-paid slaves. Over and over again, the repeating theme is that globalists/progressives are 21st century slave traders.

"Most of the zone's 4,500 workers are Chinese.

"Everybody here heard about this place through friends," said a tall, blond Ukrainian woman who worked at the casino's reception desk and spoke on condition of anonymity, saying she was not authorized to speak on behalf of the company.

Most come from southwestern China and overseas Chinese communities in Thailand and Myanmar, she said. They live in on-site dormitories and earn about $800 to $1,600 a month, about as much as a construction worker in mainland China."

Excellent Reuters special report, long format article. I always appreciate actual journalism. Parts are very disturbing, especially if you have a doggo best friend like I do. :(

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-special-report-mekong-idUSTRE80Q00G20120127

Long but very worth the time. There is so much trade in every sort of depravity going in and out of this place that it's building its own airport (heads up, flightfags, is it open yet?)

"If the Golden Triangle SEZ is a distant outpost of China, a “second homeland,” then it is poignant that 13 Chinese men and women — blindfolded, gagged, terrified — could have sailed past it in the final moments of their lives. "

Evil. Pure evil.