Convicted con man Gilbert Chikli, sentenced in absentia to seven years in prison by a French court last year but living openly in Ashdod, is credited with masterminding a fraud that has cost companies $1.8 billion. To get away with it, he became the first of many to look east
https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-a-french-israeli-grifter-became-a-money-laundering-pioneer-in-china/