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Australia too. Reportedly 70% of Chinese buying property in Sydney and Melbourne pay in cash [1]

Exempted from our anti money laundering KYC laws are realestate sellers, lawyers, and accountants (setting up corporate structures to circumvent foreign ownership review board scrutiny) [2]

The median house price in Sydney is now greater than $1,000,000 while the average gross wage is $82,000 per annum.

It's way out of whack, and unfettered money laundering into realestate purchases is partly to blame.

[1] https://www.propertynerd.com.au/news/chinese-laundering-mone...

[2] https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2018/10/australia-worlds-we...



Chinese people are equally upset with those criminals who looted and parked money overseas. Please consider supporting Australia-China extradition treaty.




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