July 30 2019
Anti-narcotic investigators are searching for signs of money laundering in the casinos that have spread across Sihanoukville, a Cambodian coastal city that has become a magnet for Chinese high-rollers, amid the booming methamphetamine market in Southeast Asia.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates the region’s meth market — Southeast Asia is the world’s epicenter of the synthetic drug — to be valued at $ 61.4 billion annually, more than double the Cambodian economy of $24 billion.
