Has been said by many in Australia that's it's easier to buy a house than get a library card.
The biggest residential purchase was splashed across the front page of the biggest newspaper as some great event yet it took them years to determine it was illegal and that was from a falling out between the owner and government.
If a $30 million luxury house in Sydney with national news coverage can't be exposed as being illegally bought, what fucking hope does any average property have? They basically catch no one for this stuff and if they do it's always due to some other crime instead.
UK/Canada/Australia/NZ are some of the biggest real estate money laundering destinations on Earth and all of their governments know it.