New Delhi, Sept. 1 -- Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant has flagged the staggering scale of money laundering and white-collar crime, saying the world launders enough money in a year to buy every one of its eight billion people a modest laptop and still have money left over, while less than 1% of the illicit wealth is ever recovered. Addressing the closing session of the 43rd International Symposium on Economic Crime at Cambridge on Saturday, justice Kant used the striking comparison to underline the gap between the scale of economic crime and the ability of legal systems to recover the proceeds. "If the global estimates on money laundering are even roughly right, the world launders enough money in a single year to buy every one of the eight billion people alive on the planet today a modest laptop, and still have some change left over in the coffers," the CJI said. He said that of the "immense tide of illicit wealth", less than one unit in a hundred is ever recovered. "For every hundred parts of that wealth, ninety-nine are simply referred to in speeches and reports, while only one part is ever actually put right," he said. He said India's experience had also demonstrated that recovering illicit assets across borders was often more dependable through mutual legal assistance than through extradition....