money laundering
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- noun
- /ˈmʌni ˈlɔndərɪŋ/
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lavado de dinero
- After a lengthy investigation, several individuals were arrested for money laundering through illicit transactions.
- combat money laundering
- prevent money laundering
- money laundering charges
And everyone, Ukraine has always been the centre for money laundering and child trafficking.
- And everyone, Ukraine has always been the centre for money laundering and child 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.
- What people may not understand is China's ties to organized crime and to money laundering operations.
- The Treasury Department was warned this looks like money laundering.
- I was back in the UK by then and I got convicted here of money laundering.
- So what is going on in London and is it really the money laundering centre of the world as some people say?
- So this now, now you've got the sort of money laundering that now people are going to try to do using Bitcoin.
- 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.
- 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?
- Yet they made my bank was the target of the largest money laundering, tax evasion investigation in the history of the world.
- They control a large part of cocaine importation into Europe, along with arms dealing, extortion and cross-border money laundering.
Examples
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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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And the office recently added a prosecutor who specializes in asset forfeiture and money laundering issues, Colbert says.
Academic text (1999) -
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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" The Russian mob is already running the biggest money laundering operation since the Second World War.
Fiction book (1996) -
Previously, their primary focus had been criminal activity in the financial arena, particularly money laundering.
Academic text (2008) -
Financial institutions on several Caribbean islands are known to benefit from money laundering operations.
Academic text (2004) -
Money transmission agents have been used as a means of money laundering in the Americas for many years.
Academic text (2007) -
Critics maintain that states which support more pervasive gambling encourage organized criminal activities, including money laundering.
Academic text (2004) -
Now, roughly speaking, the Department of Justice is accusing FTX of criminal wire fraud and money laundering, which is bad.
Synonyms
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Making money from crime look legal by moving it through banks or businesses
How Hidden
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase uses a transparent metaphor — applying 'laundering' (cleaning) to 'money' to mean 'cleaning' dirty/illicit funds — a mapping common across many languages (e.g. Spanish lavadо de dinero, French blanchiment). However, the expression denotes a technical/legal process (concealing origins via complex transactions), so the full procedural meaning is non-literal and may not be fully predictable to an average B1 learner, making it only partially transparent.
Etymology
The phrase money laundering comes from the idea of washing clothes. The word laundering means washing, and people hide 'dirty' money by moving it through banks and fake businesses to make it look 'clean', so the phrase means hiding where the money really came from.