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Money Laundering
Money Laundering What is Money Laundering?
Effects on Economic Development
Anti-Money Laundering Efforts
Conclusion
What is Money Laundering ?
Definition: The process of disguising the proceeds of crime in a try to hide their illicit
origins and legitimize their future use .Objective: To conceal true ownership and origin of the proceeds, a desire to maintain control, a need to change the form of the proceeds.
Techniques: They can be simple, diverse, complex, accurate, but secret .
Stages of money laundering
1 -Predicate Crimes*Corruption and Bribery
Stages of money laundering
1 -Predicate Crimes*Fraud
Stages of money laundering
1 -Predicate Crimes*Organized crime
*Drug and human trafficking*Environmental crime
Stages of money laundering
1 -Predicate Crimes*Terrorism
*Other serious crimes.
Stages of money laundering
2 -Placement Moving and placing the funds into
financial institutions or the retail economy. *Banks
*Brokerage firms *Financial services
*Money transfer *Realtors
Stages of money laundering
3 -Layering Multiple and sometimes complex financial
transactions are conducted to continue hide their illegal nature.
*Change of currency into different currencies. *Movements of money to different countries.
Stages of money laundering
4 -Integration Illicit funds re-enter the economy disguised
as legitimate business earnings . *Securities *Businesses *Real estate *Investment
Effects on Economic Development
It will distort the economic data and complicate
government’s efforts to manage economic policy.
It will have adverse consequences for interest
and exchange rate volatility.
Reduce the annual GDP(Gross Domestic Product).
Distorts investment and depresses productivity.
Facilitates corruption and crime at the expense
of development.
Effects on Economic Development
Can increase the risk of macroeconomic
instability.
Criminal organizations can transform
productive enterprises into sterile
investments.
Outbound capital flows: facilitating
illicit capital flight.
Inbound capital flows: reducing foreign
investment.
Trade: distorting prices and content.
Anti-Money Laundering Efforts
Creating anti-money laundering regulatory and
enforcement organizations in countries and
regional groupings.
- Financial Action Task Force (FATF), UN,
Egmont Group
- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (Fin
CEN)
- Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)
- Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and the USA
Patriot Act of 2001
Cooperation between national governments.
Conclusion Criminals are now benefit from the globalization of the world economy by transferring funds quickly across international borders.
Money laundering threatens economic development.
The international financial community should strongly support anti-laundering efforts, and cooperate to share information.
Developing countries should impose anti-laundering laws to improve the credibility not only its financial sector, but its governance as well.
Thank you for your attention