laundering
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- noun
- /ˈlɔndərɪŋ/
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blanqueo
- Many countries have incorporated the FATF recommendations against both money laundering and terrorist financing into their regulatory regimes.
- money laundering
- Anti-Money laundering
- combat money laundering
The whole place is built on money laundering and human trafficking and drug trafficking.
- The whole place is built on money laundering and human trafficking and drug trafficking.
- The other element to this is anti money laundering laws.
- The Treasury Department was warned this looks like money laundering.
- What people may not understand is China's ties to organized crime and to money laundering operations.
- So what is going on in London and is it really the money laundering centre of the world as some people say?
- I was back in the UK by then and I got convicted here of money laundering.
- So this now, now you've got the sort of money laundering that now people are going to try to do using Bitcoin.
- Now, roughly speaking, the Department of Justice is accusing FTX of criminal wire fraud and money laundering, which is bad.
- And So what at that time and what you're aware of now, how it evolved, how does money, money laundering work?
- They control a large part of cocaine importation into Europe, along with arms dealing, extortion and cross-border money laundering.
- Has that entered the laundering and tax evasion equation yet?
- And it's the usual arguments about money laundering and such.
- And everyone, Ukraine has always been the centre for money laundering and child trafficking.
- I hear all about the money laundering in Ukraine.
Examples
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FATF produced 40 recommendations against money laundering in 1990 and updated them in 2003.
Academic text (2007) -
Financial institutions on several Caribbean islands are known to benefit from money laundering operations.
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So what is going on in London and is it really the money laundering centre of the world as some people say?
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I hear all about the money laundering in Ukraine.
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I was just tracking a money laundering scheme.
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" The Russian mob is already running the biggest money laundering operation since the Second World War.
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Other frequently used techniques, such as trade-based money laundering, also present real challenges for governments.
Academic text (2008) -
Now, roughly speaking, the Department of Justice is accusing FTX of criminal wire fraud and money laundering, which is bad.
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Following last week's Anti Corruption Summit in London, legislation will be introduced to tackle corruption, money laundering and tax evasion.
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The authorities uncovered a major laundering operation that funneled millions through fake businesses.
Synonyms
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Hiding money obtained illegally by moving it through banks or businesses
Antonyms
Compounds
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Hiding money obtained illegally by moving it through banks or businesses
How Hidden
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Laundering is also used in a figurative way that borrows the idea of washing from Latin lavare 'to wash'; people picture illegal money as 'dirty' and the process as 'washing' it until it looks 'clean'. That's why laundering can mean making illegally obtained money appear legal.