Financial intelligent investigations in combating money laundering crime

Money for Crime and Money from Crime: Financing crime and laundering crime proceeds

This article summarises briefly what is known internationally about how ‘organised crimes’ are financed and how this differs from the financing of licit businesses. It shows how illicit financing might and does operate, noting that a key issue is the social capital of offenders and their access to illicit finance which ironically, may be easier if controls make it harder to launder money. It th...

Crime, Illicit Markets, and Money Laundering

Combating Black Money: Money Laundering and Terrorism Finance, International Cooperation and the G8 Role

In the aftermath of September 11th, growing attention has been paid to the role of Non-Cooperative Countries and Territories (NCCT) in money laundering and terrorist financing. Policymakers concentrate their attention on the possibility that NCCT jurisdictions might facilitate the task of terrorists as well as criminal organizations (black money). Since 1989 the G7/G8 countries expressed the ge...

Research on Money Laundering Crime under Electronic Payment Background

As the result of information technology's development, promoted the tradition payment means enormously to the computerization development advancement. The electronic payment has accelerated the money circulation speed, and has brought the enormous convenience for the modern trade activity. But the electronic payment's characteristics such as invisible, high speed, concealment and so on have pro...

Money Laundering and Technology Enabled Crime: a cultural analysis

Over the past decade or so, aided by information and communication technologies, money laundering has seen a sharp increase. While traditionally money laundering was associated with drug cartels and warlords, increasingly the focus has shifted towards white-collar crime and terrorist financing. It is therefore important to understand why money laundering (and hence white-collar crime) comes int...