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On 15 August 2023, the Singapore Police Force conducted an operation against money laundering. It is the biggest money laundering case in Singapore, and among the biggest in the world, involving assets worth 3 billion Singapore dollars. It led to ten foreigners being charged for money laundering related crimes.
The term "banana money" originates from the motifs of banana trees on the currency's 10 dollar banknote, seen here at the bottom. The Japanese government-issued dollar was a form of currency issued for use within the Imperial Japan -occupied territories of Singapore, Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei between 1942 and 1945.
10. Ferdinand E. Marcos. Commemorative 25-Piso Coin with Ronald Reagan. 5-Piso Bagong Lipunan Coin, 50, 1000 and 5000 Peso Commemorative Coins (1978) 7. 11. Corazon C. Aquino. Commemorative 25-Piso Coin with Ronald Reagan (1986)
The total value of assets seized in Singapore's biggest money laundering case has swelled to S$2.4 billion ($1.76 billion), police said on Wednesday. The assets now include cash amounting to more ...
Thailand triggered the crisis on 2 July and on 3 July, the Bangko Sentral intervened to defend the peso, raising the overnight rate from 15% to 32% at the onset of the Asian crisis in mid-July 1997. The peso dropped from 26 pesos per dollar at the start of the crisis to 46.50 pesos in early 1998 to 53 pesos as in July 2001.
A Rolls-Royce Dawn vehicle seized by police at a residence of Su Jiafeng, one of the suspects in the S$2.8 billion money-laundering case, in Singapore, on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023.
The Philippines. On 10 December 1941 Japanese troops landed on Luzon. The Japanese invaded Manila on 2 January 1942, and in the process captured more than $20.5 Million in U.S. and local cash and an unknown amount of foreign currency and bullion. [citation needed]
During World War II in the Philippines, the occupying Japanese government issued a fiat currency in several denominations; this is known as the Japanese government-issued Philippine peso (see also Japanese invasion money ). [1] The Japanese government outlawed possession of guerrilla currency, and declared a monopoly on the issuance of money ...