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Handbags, jewels, watches: Inside Singapore's dirty money auction

Inside Singapore's 'Fort Knox' for city's $2bn dirty money auction

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Singapore has begun auctioning off luxury goods that were seized by police in a sensational $2.2 billion money laundering case that gripped the city state in 2023.

The items are being held inside Le Freeport, a fortified storage facility, where the BBC's Vandhna Bhan was allowed inside for a look.

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