The Cop Who Failed To Protect Finansia

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Bradley Hope

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Police General Visanu spent 40 years fighting corruption. Then he failed to protect a Thai financial company from a criminal takeover.

Welcome to Whale Hunting, where we follow the money from Southeast Asian scam centers to Manhattan penthouses, exposing the criminal networks that cost Americans billions each year.

On Tuesday, we revealed that Thailand's Deputy Finance Minister was appointed to investigate the network that paid his wife $3 million. By Wednesday, he had resigned.

The payment was part of a secret takeover of Thai finance company Finansia X PCL by a Chinese-Cambodian criminal network. We've been writing about how the network, fronted by South African criminal Benjamin Mauerberger, launders billions of dollars from scam centers in Cambodia that target Americans.

Control of Finansia gave the syndicate another way to move illicit cash.

Today, we answer the question readers have been asking: Why did the board of Finansia not investigate the secret takeover by this criminal network, months after our reporting on them?

The answer is more disturbing than another corrupt politician.

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