A fake bank set up on a high street in China's Jiangsu province has managed to go undetected for over a year, conning customer out of more than £21m.
The rural financial cooperative posing as a large bank promised two per cent interest a week on deposits and high interest subsidies. More than 200 people are believed to have fallen for the con, the South China Morning Post reports.
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