Malaysia\u2019s Forest City is billed as a luxury housing and leisure development, yet when police raided a tower in the leafy complex recently they found not well-heeled residents, but an alleged scam enterprise staffed by hundreds of Chinese nationals.\u2060
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\n‘It was a much bigger operation than we were expecting,’ said a person involved in the July 15 operation. ‘It took us two days to do the paperwork.’\u2060
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\nThe raid, which echoed recent busts on scam compounds in rundown buildings across poorer parts of south-east Asia, was just one of a long line of blows to the reputation of Forest City, a Chinese-backed development co-owned by the king of Malaysia and promoted by Kuala Lumpur and the Johor state government, the FT’s Owen Walker explains. <\/p>\n
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