Hong Kong's zealous anti-doxxing campaign could make it even easier to hide dirty money in the city
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Beachfront property owned by China's political elite. Washington-accused drug lords and gun runners operating blocks apart. Companies enabling North Korea's purported sanctions-busting fleet.
All the above exist in Hong Kong and were exposed, in part, by investigations using Hong Kong's Companies Registry, a public database that has become the subject of a fierce debate between the city's government and a coalition of investors, lawyers, journalists and advocates for transparent governance. Though the registry's online search engine looks and operates like it was created 20 years ago, it is a crucial tool for a smattering of industries because it contains identifying information for the nearly 1.4 million active companies in Hong Kong — and the people in charge of them.
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