Fight against white-collar crime intensifies


Strict measures: Office workers in Singapore’s central business district. The growing cross-border nature of financial crimes is one of the key challenges that the country is tackling. — Reuters

SINGAPORE: Singapore is girding to tackle white-collar cases that are expected to become more complex as the city-state expands as a global financial hub.

The crime unit of its prosecutor’s office is “actively recruiting” to add to its current bench of about 200 prosecutors and investing in technology that’s able to sift through documents that could run into millions of pages, according to one of its top law officers.

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