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Part 1 in a series on prison economics. When legitimate money stops mattering, human desperation creates alternative economies that reveal the true psychology of survival
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When desperation meets opportunity and professional privilege provides cover, the line between victim and accomplice becomes dangerously blurred
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When vulnerability meets opportunity, even Sunday league football can become a gateway for international organised crime
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When cultural adaptation meets criminal opportunity, the result can be a sophisticated deception that exploits both government trust and professional privilege
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When legitimate business success isn't enough, the temptation to skim millions from tax authorities can transform respected entrepreneurs into sophisticated money launderers
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When AML professionals think of predicate crimes, drug trafficking often dominates the conversation. But New Zealand's financial crime landscape reveals a far more complex reality.
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Drug use and money laundering is a product of systemic issues and the exploitation of vulnerabilities as much it is about individual choices.
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When profit trumps principle, the consequences extend far beyond shareholder returns—they reach into every community touched by the violence, corruption, and suffering that unchecked money laundering enables
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When legitimate pathways to prosperity vanish, criminal organisations step in to fill the void with devastating consequences for communities across New Zealand.
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When economic opportunity meets institutional weakness, the result can be the systematic transformation of entire nations into criminal infrastructure
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When desperation meets opportunity on the high seas, the result is sophisticated criminal networks that exploit ocean currents, corrupt officials, and financial systems to flood communities with devastating narcotics
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When financial desperation meets criminal opportunity, even the most trusted gatekeepers can become the most dangerous enablers