Some people do extraordinary things to get rich but few come close to Big Spender. A criminal mastermind, he grew up poor in Hong Kong and hungry for more. So, naturally, he decided to pull off the biggest crimes of their kind the world has ever seen.

This is Bad Money — a new narrative series from Kindling Media and Vespucci about power, wealth and wrongdoing.

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