How to Launder Money

Money laundering is as old as money itself - and yet the
laws designed to prevent it are as ineffective as they ever have been.



Today's anti-money laundering (AML) regulations were
designed to eliminate profits from drug trafficking and combat tax evasion,
terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction. However, the modern
laws have done little to stop crime and have instead significantly increased
the regulatory burden on legitimate businesses and consumers. As one banker at
an AML conference quipped, 'This does not stop money laundering; it just
enables those in the know to charge more.'



Indeed, AML laws have laid the foundations for massive and
sophisticated criminal enterprise support services that help criminals evade
detection.



How to Launder Money: A guide for law enforcement,
prosecutors and policymakers offers a peek behind the veil to see the bent
levers of finance and how they are pulled. It also examines how many who have
pulled them, including one of the authors, have ended up behind bars. While
acknowledging the challenges faced by law enforcement in a borderless world, it
also provides concrete recommendations on how to reduce the crime associated
with money laundering.



The criminals already know how to launder money; this is, in
part, their inside story. This book is for the rest of us, who want to know how
the laws that are supposed to protect us from crime are in reality doing more
damage than ever before.