Anonymous companies and trusts used to hide the identity of the person at the source of the funds, become vehicles to launder and transfer stolen money, or to operationalise corrupt deals. These ...
"Canada is a preferred destination to launder ill-gotten gains with impunity," say Jamie Ferrill and Christian Leuprecht, the co-editors of Dirty Money. They also wrote some of its 16 chapters.
To further conceal the origins of their wealth they will then clean or launder the money, legitimising profits made from illegal trade. One recent estimate puts worldwide money laundering activity ...
Now federal prosecutors claim he used his knowledge to launder $2.5 million of dirty Venezuelan cash ... with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and two counts of money laundering.