Money laundering is the practice of engaging in finance/financial transactions in order to conceal the identity, source, and/or destination of illegally gained money, and is a main operation of the underground economy.
In the past, the term "money laundering" was applied only to financial transactions related to organized crime. Today its definition is often expanded by government regulators such as the United States Office of the Comptroller/Controller of the Currency to encompass any financial transaction which generates an asset or a value as the result of an illegal act, which may involve actions such as tax evasion or false accounting. As a result, the illegal activity of money laundering is now recognized as potentially practiced by individuals, small and large businesses, corrupt officials, members of criminal organization organized crime such as drug dealers or the Mafia, and even corrupt states, through a complex business network of shell companies and trusts based in Offshore Financial Centre offshore tax havens. "Smurfing" and "kiting" are examples of money laundering techniques.
The increasing complexity of financial crime, the increasing recognized value of so-called "financial intelligence information gathering intelligence" FININT in combating transnational crime and terrorism, and the speculated impact of Capital economics capital extracted from the legitimate Economics economy has led to an increased prominence of money laundering in political, economic, and legal debate.
In the past, the term "money laundering" was applied only to financial transactions related to organized crime. Today its definition is often expanded by government regulators such as the United States Office of the Comptroller/Controller of the Currency to encompass any financial transaction which generates an asset or a value as the result of an illegal act, which may involve actions such as tax evasion or false accounting. As a result, the illegal activity of money laundering is now recognized as potentially practiced by individuals, small and large businesses, corrupt officials, members of criminal organization organized crime such as drug dealers or the Mafia, and even corrupt states, through a complex business network of shell companies and trusts based in Offshore Financial Centre offshore tax havens. "Smurfing" and "kiting" are examples of money laundering techniques.
The increasing complexity of financial crime, the increasing recognized value of so-called "financial intelligence information gathering intelligence" FININT in combating transnational crime and terrorism, and the speculated impact of Capital economics capital extracted from the legitimate Economics economy has led to an increased prominence of money laundering in political, economic, and legal debate.
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