Triangle, Chinese entrepreneur Zhao Wei is
constructing a sprawling
casino resort and airstrip
despite being sanctioned by the U.S.
Treasury Department
as a threat to the United States because of
his horrendous illicit activities .
his financial reach into northeast Laos
prehistoric Plain of Jars and
delving into southern Laos
close to Vietnam s frontier.
U.S. allegations
sanctioning Mr. Zhao include engaging in
drug
trafficking, human trafficking, money laundering,
bribery, and
wildlife trafficking, much of which is
facilitated through the Kings
Romans Casino, the
Treasury Department said. Zhao is an unsavory Chinese
gangster, and founder of the Hong
Kong-registered Kings
Shadowy Chinese casino magnate Zhao Wei eyes a business empire in Laos
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In Mekong region, drug trade thrives
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Johanna Son Founder/editor of the Reporting ASEAN series
published : 15 Jul 2021 at 04:00
14 Confiscated synthetic drugs, including 167 kilogrammes of ketamine as well as other popular recreational drugs, in this file photo from April 7. (Photo: Nutthawat Wicheanbut)
An example of a resilient business model in hard times? Indeed, except that this describes how the synthetic drug industry has been expanding in East and Southeast Asia, home to the Mekong region which is the manufacturing and trafficking hub that supplies illicit drugs that reach not just the wider Asia but the globe.
Referring to a report on the synthetic drug situation, Inshik Sim, drug programme analyst for Southeast Asia and the Pacific for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), said: Covid-19 has had very, very limited impact and especially in the Mekong region, we don t see much impact of Covid-19,