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Inside China's Underground Black Market Banks
Fishy finance
They front as phone vendors or tea shops, but China's multi-million-dollar underground banks boast high-flying patrons—gamblers, Communist Party bigwigs and the country's nouveau riche.
Brendon Hong
Published
Feb. 26 2014
5:45AM EST
Brent Lewin/Bloomberg, via Getty
Brendon Hong
bradyng@gmail.com
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