Chinese money launderers are facilitating the fentanyl epidemic and helping international drug traffickers, like Mexican cartels and the Italian mafia, launder the proceeds of crime. The FT investigates the connection between capital flight from China and global organised crime

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00:00 - Introduction
00:55 - The rise of Chinese money brokers
03:06 - Fentanyl epidemic
04:51 - Ray Donovan
07:05 - All roads lead to Flushing
11:40 - Chinese money laundering goes global
12:32 - Italian mafias
13:46 - Ndrangheta
14:26 - Port of Gioia Tauro
16:26 - Illegal money collection centres
18:40 - Vanishing remittances
21:12 - Fentanyl deaths
25:07 - Project Sleeping Giants
27:35 - Xizhi Li
29:54 - Renewed cooperation with China
31:25 - Rise of triads
32:17 - Capital flight

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