{
  "id": 19903963,
  "title": "Cool, friendly, evasive: CAD investigator on suspect arrested in $3b money laundering probe",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/cool-friendly-evasive-cad-investigator-on-suspect-arrested-in-3b",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-14T02:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Straits Times",
    "slug": "straits-times",
    "url": "https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/courts-crime/cool-friendly-evasive-cad-investigator-on-suspect-arrested-in-3b-money-laundering-probe"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On the morning of August 15, 2023, police officers, some wearing balaclavas, conducted a raid on a bungalow in Bishopsgate, Singapore, where a Turkish national named Vang Shuiming was staying. The 42-year-old, who was familiar with police investigations, was arrested despite being unaware of the impending raid. Vang, whose birth name in China is Wang Shuiming, was a key member of the Heng Bo Bao Wang gambling syndicate, which had operations in China, the Philippines, and Cambodia.\n\nTeh Yee Liang, a team leader in the Commercial Affairs Department's International Cooperation Branch, described Vang as cool and evasive. He was one of the few investigators from the CAD who would spend the next nine months working on Singapore's largest money laundering probe. Just a year prior, Vang and his brother managed to evade arrest in China when authorities busted the syndicate in May 2022.\n\nDuring the raid, officers found luxury watches, designer bags, stacks of cash, and a large collection of Macallan 25 Years Sherry Oak whisky bottles, worth between $4,000 and $5,000 each. They also seized eight high-end watches, a Kawai crystal grand piano, and assets of 25 out of the 27 foreign nationals implicated in the case. Vang was eventually sentenced and deported, along with nine others who were later charged and found guilty of money laundering and submitting forged financial documents.",
  "summary": "Vang Shuiming changed his surname from Wang while applying for Turkish citizenship as the Turkish keyboard does not have a 'W'.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}