Criminal Finance:The Political Economy of Money Laundering in a Comparative Legal Context

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Kluwer Law International B.V., 2002 M05 13 - 496 pages
Like it or not, money launderers are major players in the world's economy. Their strategies constrain national economic policies and undermine financial institutions. With the advent of secure transfer technologies, and with the help of modern financial theories of derivatives and leverage, money laundering has become a significant structural component in contemporary geopolitics. This penetrating and thorough analysis focuses on control: how the problem is handled by legislation and regulatory and law enforcement agencies (particularly in the US and the EU), what the daunting challenges are that must be faced, what more can be attempted.

In the course of developing in-depth consideration of the numerous intertwining issues that arise, the author uncovers a wealth of precise detail about what we know and what we can reasonably surmise about patterns of money laundering activity.

Relevant matters covered include:

the internal measuring and monitoring systems used by financial institutions; methodologies in use or in development to measure the extent of money laundering; the role of money laundering in the "informal economy"; and the global rise of new criminal organisations.

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Contents

Introduction
1
The Politics of Money Laundering
39
The Economics of Money Laundering
69
The Jurisprudence of Money Laundering
97
European
123
American
168
Soft Law and Offshore Financial Centres
223
Financial Institutions and Money Laundering
283
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287
Laundering
312
Government Regulation and Money Laundering
321
Law Enforcement and Money Laundering
358
Conclusion
387
Terrorism and Money Laundering
402
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