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摘要

Sam koim, the chairman of Papua New Guinea's anti-corruption watchdog, raised eyebrows at a meeting of financial crime-fighters in Sydney last October when he described how officials from his country were systematically "using Australia as a Cayman Islands" by laundering a significant portion of corruptly obtained funds through Australian banks and property deals. Papuans were thought to be the largest property investors in Australia's far north. He vowed to keep up the pressure on Australia until it stopped taking such business.