The flows of money within the Vietnamese community’s deals in Sapa, Prague’s biggest marketplace, indicates that dirty money is laundered there, the counter-intelligence service (BIS) writes in its annual report for 2011 released yesterday. BIS agents have mainly registered suspicious financial operations accompanying the imports of goods from Asia.
In spite of the uncovered illegal activities, however, the BIS does not consider the Sapa market place a significant risk for the state security, BIS writes.
It says it has registered, in connection with the Vietnamese crime, “opaque flows of financial means supposedly originating from criminal activities.”
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