Money

Laundering

Malauti Andrei Denis

An 1 , Finante si banci , grupa 4
Main ideas:
• Definition of money laundering
• What money laundering includes?
• History of money laundering
• Objective of money laundering
Definition:
• Money laundering is any financial transaction witch generates an asset
or a value as the result of an illegal act.

• Metaphorically, money laundering referes to cleaning ”dirty money”.

Money laundering includes:
• Drug trafficking
• Extortion
• Corruption
• Fraud
History of Money Laundering
• Money laundering as a crime only
attracted interes in 1980s, ask Description
essentialy whitin a drug traffiking
context.
• Money laundering metods become
more creative since the 1989 and Step 2 Title
1993.
• Terrorist finacing, altough only one
aspect of money laundering , has
become a critical concern following Step 3 Title
the events of September 11 , 2001.
Objective of money laundering
The main objective of money launderers are those to place their
founds in the financial sistem whitout arousing suspicion. After a
series of complete transactions crossing multiple jurisdictions so
that is become hard to find their original source.