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Money laundering is close to one of the oldest crime in the book. An author named Sterling Seagrave is a politician who has written that more than 2000 years ago, the Chinese that were really wealthy laundered their money because the government banned most forms of commercial trading. Also, a great amount of income came from black marketing, extortion and bribe. Those people who stayed invisible were able to keep all their profits safe from the government. Therefore they used money hiding techniques to avoid the government from finding their profits. According to the legend, the term of money laundering was originated in the 1920’s during the period of the prohibition. Later on in the 1980’s, money laundering begin gaining lots more

In order to successfully launder money three processes are needed: placement, layering, and integration. In the first state, placement, the illegal proceeding are disengaged from direct association with the crime or criminal. In the second stage, layering, the money is used in some legal financial transaction in order to “camouflage” the cash. In the third stage, integration, the apparently legal money is available to the money launder (Kelly, Maghan and Joseph). For better understanding, the fig 1 gives a real life example on how money laundering is done.

As a result of not having experienced the horrors of the Holocaust like their ancestors did, second generation Jews often sense they must demonstrate their respect and appreciation towards their elders. Indebted to the previous generation, these Jews search for ways in which to honor those martyrs who lost their lives half a century ago. The ways in which this generation pays homage are quite diverse. Many sites on the web, like Aragorn's, are virtual shrines to the memories of their ancestors. Others are fully dedicated to the organization of campaigns in order to procure justice in the name of Jewish families whose possessions were seized by the Nazis during WWII and stored in Swiss banks. Click here for an example.

After Kristallnacht, the Nazi’s imposed a fine of $400,000,000 on the Jews in Germany. To make it worse, the Jews were ordered to clean up and make repairs, and all insurance money paid to Jews due to property damage was confiscated by the German government. This order was devastating, because over 1,000 synagogues and 7,000 Jewish businesses in Germany were destroyed, which made it impossible for the Jews to make repairs.

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The Holocaust goes without saying in the sense that it is the most well-known act of human violence ever, but not only was it the greatest human genocide in the history of mankind but was also the greatest theft of human property as well. The Jewish people lost an estimated worth of billions of dollars in current monetary terms. Many countries throughout Europe during World War II profited from the plights of the Jewish people including the so-called neutral countries of Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and Sweden. The previously listed countries conspired with Nazi’s to hold, launder, and buy items taken from the Jewish people during the Nazi Regimes occupation of Europe. Gold that was being taken from occupied countries was being laundered through

“Panama Papers: The Real Scandal Is What’s Legal” by Brooke Harrington was written on April 6th, 2016 and published in ‘The Atlantic’. In this article, Harrington stresses the idea that tax avoidance and offshore finances are entangled with the acts of many governments seeing that it is what stabilizes the economic growth of a country. The author discusses the link between the Panamanian wealth management firm Mossack Fonesca, to a numerous amount of financial crimes. The “Panama Papers” are documents that consist of firms who are allegedly involved in fraud, money laundering, and theft. No country would even think to create strict laws towards ending tax evasion because it would hurt several economies and firms like Mossack Fonesca whose

According to Hopton (2009), the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 was created in order to prevent money laundering. The act was made to try to discourage illegal acts such as money laundering from happening and to deter the criminals from even thinking about committing the crime. Woods (1998) stated that money laundering was not a criminal offense at the time the Bank Secrecy Act was passed. The act provides information on the movement of money through financial institutions in the United States and it monitors the movement of money into and out of the United States. It requires banks and other financial businesses to help the government in trying to prevent and detect money laundering. The federal government law enforcement agencies use the information gathered through the Bank Secrecy Act to detect criminal activities and regulatory violations. These businesses are required to keep track of all of their cash transactions of ten thousand dollars and more and report them to the IRS within forty five days. These transactions could include anything such as deposits, withdrawals, exchanges, payments, multiple transactions in one day and any cash deposits over the weekend or holidays (Woods, 1998). They also have to identify individuals who are requesting these large transactions and keep any records that relate to their transactions.

There is always a famous case for every type of crime. One of the most famous cases if not the most famous case would be the case against notorious mobster Al Capone. Al Capone was a part of and the head of the Mafia during prohibition times. He was a big time bootlegger and needed to get his money around somehow so he used money laundering to move his money around to make it look legit so that they could never tie it up to him. The government eventually caught him with tax invasion. “Capone's episode inspired Meyer Lansky, the mob's accountant, who structured elaborate international and Swiss financial facilities for safely securing money and vowed never to suffer Capone's fate.” (Matonis, 2013). Capone’s accountant would use the method of money laundering to move the money to a different bank so that the Mob could still have the money that Capone had made from his bootlegging. He also just wanted nothing to do with the situation that Capone was in and thought that the best idea would be to move the money to a location in which it would not lead to him.

In the shadow banking system there is an highly important part in the process which is the securitisation process. The securitisation process is a method where illiquid assets are transformed into liquid tradable instruments. In more detail the securitisation process is a method which gives the banks the opportunity to removes the loans from the asset side of their balance sheet meaning that they evenly spread the associated risks to the other financial units. This could be due to the fact that shadow banks are largely unregulated. However during the financial crisis the shadow banking system also helped magnify the risks in the banks balance sheets since after the financial crisis there was an increase in the regulation in the shadowing banking system.

Money laundering has been defined as the process by which criminals attempt to conceal the illicit origin and ownership of the proceeds from their illegal activities. Criminals obtain the money from their illicit activities such as drug trafficking, fraud, etc. From that point forward, three stages are to happen in order for the crime of money laundering to be committed. The first stage is placement. Placement means the cash is deposited into banks. The second stage is layering meaning the funds are moved into other financial institutions to throw off any suspicions of its origins. The final stage is integration which simply means the money is used for legitimate assets such as purchasing a house or investing in stocks and other things of that nature.

The EU, instructing a formal investigation, requiring the UK to submit proposals for a new tax regime for the EU to approve, challenged its tax haven. However, such investigations give rise to a bad reputation hindering their financial and banking systems, which have recently gained momentum.

Offshore banking is the action of having a bank account outside of the country of residence. Typically it offers many advantages like greater privacy, low or no taxation, easy access to deposits and protection against local, political, or financial instability, but has also been popular for its use of illegal practices like money laundering and tax evasion. Those against offshore banking view its illegal reputation and predict that it will only cause further damage like providing fund for terrorism or holding underground economies. However other experts believe that offshore banking is a safe haven for depositors and has had a substantial impact on the international economy in today’s world.

What do you mean by black money? Are you familiar with the biggest shelter of black Money in the world? How much money they reserve and from where it came? Black Money is also called as Illegal Money. Swiss bank is considered as one of the biggest shelters of black money in the whole world with the most amount of money coming from South Asian countries especially India. Indians tops the list with the largest amount of money stashed in the Swiss Bank. Despite numerous attempts at bringing back black money to India, conflicts and arguments were raised among members of different political parties but still attempts are made to make it a success.