Alarm clock: Money laundering investigations more than tripled in five years

PRESS REVIEW || The number of defendants also increased fivefold in three years

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Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and provides information behind the scenes about how our journalism unites. For months, Selam Gebrekidan, an investigative reporter for the New York Times, looked at a maze of handwritten diagrams, drawings and pictures on a wall inside his Hong Kong apartment. He was trying to rebuild how he operates exactly one of the world’s largest money laundering networks. “He needed visual help when he was …