The penetration of Asian Organised Crime into Australia gained momentum with the wave of Japanese investment and economic influence in the late 1980s, early 1990s. Now there is China, the new Asian imperialist, and with Chinese investment comes the influence of organised crime as well. “…there is a dark side to remittance operations. To ultimately settle exchanges via hawala, Chinese underground banks regularly use cash generated by criminal groups through activities such as drug trafficking, cigarette smuggling, organized illegal immigration and human trafficking, according to the NCA (National Crime Authority).” This money ultimately floods into the quest to buy up property in sucker countries such as Australia:
Let Bloomberg detail this one further: