to launder
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8.4
- verb
- /ˈlɔːndər/
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- All I did was launder half a billion dollars in drug money.
- launder money
I don't even get it, but how would one launder with crypto?
- I don't even get it, but how would one launder with crypto?
- Not only do the cartels make money off drug trafficking, but also extortion, money laundering, paid protection schemes.
- And removal of criminal property is a subsection of the Money Laundering Act.
- It's really trying to protect against secret transactions or what's often called money laundering.
- But there is not a single example in modern times of anybody on that pet list or their family being involved with money laundering.
- They use these these organizations to launder the censorship requests.
- This whole exchange was created just as a way to launder the Mount G Ox like heist essentially.
- Was a perfect way to to launder lots and lots of money was a tax in Colombia, financial tax.
- That in fact BTCE had been created, this whole cryptocurrency exchange had been created just as a way to launder this, the loot from this giant heist of Mount Cox.
- That's like got like money laundering, like we got to lose the loan.
- And yeah, he got done for like fraud, money laundering, all kinds of shit.
- Yet they made my bank was the target of the largest money laundering, tax evasion investigation in the history of the world.
- No money laundering is if I've created, that's the, the the easiest crimes to prove, wire fraud, mail fraud, money laundering.
Examples
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Criminal organizations often use fake businesses to launder their illegal profits.
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I used to know a guy, laundered money for the Russians.
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Thanks for letting me know about the scheme to launder the money I never had.
Blog text (16) -
You launder money for the Mob.
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Apparently, he was using some campaign cash that was laundered for us through Mexico.
Fiction book (1995) -
I mean, it really makes it tougher for these mobsters to launder their money.
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The new technologies also provide organized crime and drug cartels with new opportunities to launder their enormous cash flow.
Academic text (1999) -
They launder money from arms and drug sales and crime syndicates in Russia.
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Anyway... five years ago... I came across some solid evidence that Terrell... had been laundering drug money at my local bank.
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Havana also used Panama City's very liberal banking system to launder money obtained from its involvement in drug trafficking.
Academic text (1990)
Synonyms
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7.4
To hide money earned in illegal ways by moving it through banks or businesses
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
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7.4
To hide money earned in illegal ways by moving it through banks or businesses
How Hidden
Surface Forms
Etymology
Launder also means to hide illegal money, and a helpful way to remember this comes from the idea of lavare 'to wash'. Criminals 'wash' dirty money by moving it through normal businesses, sometimes even laundries, so the money looks 'clean' and legal.