Money Laundering is the process by which criminals attempts to hide and disguise the true origin of the proceeds of their criminal activities, avoiding prosecution, convictions and confiscation of the criminal found.
Money Laundering é il processo tramite il quale i criminali nascondono e mascherano la vera origine delle loro attività criminali, evitando persecuzioni, condanne e confisca dei fondi.
Money Laundering refers to proceeds for ALL crime (terrorism, fraud, theft, drug, ....).
There are 3 stage for clean the dirty money:
- Placement illegal funds are introduced into the financial system
normally the proceeds of crime take money in cash form, at this stage the money move from cash to non cash economy
- Layering the deposited cash move through a series of transactions to confuse the audit trail
each movement make more difficult to trace the true origin of the found
- Integration illegal founds are re-introduced into the economy