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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1374/
- Published: 2026-01-02T17:30:41.000Z
- Updated: 2026-01-02T17:30:40.000Z
- Description: The pair used false identities and a network of disposable “money mules” to make $123 million in cash deposits over three years for their foreign exchange and money transfer businesses, which operated from an office on Auckland’s Queen St.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> A professional money launderer whose criminal enterprise generated more than $120 million for customers must forfeit half a million to the Crown.  
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> Musabayoufu Fuati and his co-offender, Daniel Hu, [both served sentences of home detention for their crimes,](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/operation-martinez-auckland-money-launderers-walk-free-from-court-after-123m-in-cash-deposits/ZXZG4SNILFFSXLP4SWX7ZE6XNE/?ref=goodoil.news) which included laundering money for drug dealers, smugglers and fraudsters.  
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> The pair used false identities and a network of disposable “money mules” to make $123 million in cash deposits over three years for their foreign exchange and money transfer businesses, which operated from an office on Auckland’s Queen St.  
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> Now a judge has ordered that Fuati will permanently lose roughly $600,000, which police said were proceeds of his offending.  
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> He and Hu were arrested in 2020, [and the Commissioner of Police filed applications to restrain property and funds under legislation governing proceeds of crime.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/money-launderers-bentley-range-rovers-porsches-seized-dealt-in-120m-transactions/T2EBPNOOHKQCC3APMFU3LI656M/?ref=goodoil.news)  
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> The courts restrained multiple properties, proceeds of sales from luxury cars, about $140,000 in bank funds and $64,000 in cash.  
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> NZ Herald

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