June 18 2017
Ping He, 52, was known as the “godmother” in a Sydney-based money laundering syndicate. As she walked through the streets of Sydney’s north shore in Australia, she appeared a humble and unassuming woman on the way to the convenience store she ran. But inside her Yeo Street apartment in the upmarket suburb of Neutral Bay, and in front of the organised crime figures she did business for, Ping He assumed the role of the “godmother”. This petite 52-year-old mother was at the helm of a lucrative money laundering ring, washing hundreds of thousands of dollars of drug proceeds offshore.