Singapore loansharks hiring foreign thugs

AFP
SINGAPORE — Illegal money lending syndicates in Singapore are hiring more foreign thugs, most of them from Taiwan and Vietnam, to harass delinquent borrowers into paying up, police said Wednesday.
These loansharks have resorted to recruiting foreign "runners" in the hope that they can avoid detection and arrest by the authorities because they enter on short-term social visit passes and have no fixed addresses. Full story

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