Wash trading distorts NFT markets, inflating prices and misleading buyers. Criminals use NFTs for money laundering, hiding ...

Placement is the first stage of the three stages of money laundering. At this stage, criminals attempt to enter the ‘dirty’ money into the financial system. This process can be dangerous because large ...

For sophisticated criminals, high-end artworks are more than just pretty pictures. Latin American cartels, a major Hezbollah financier and powerful Russian oligarchs have all exploited the luxury art ...

MONEY LAUNDERING HELPS ILLICIT ORGANIZATIONS by lowering their cost of capital, giving them a competitive advantage over legitimate businesses. NEITHER GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS NOR THE BUSINESS community ...

Money laundering is one of the most difficult criminal economies to detect and prosecute, and the debate over the effectiveness of anti-money laundering policies has intensified in recent years, ...

In July 2016, Ekaterina Zhdanova’s star was rising. The glamorous socialite and entrepreneur, who had opened a series of hotels and leisure businesses across Moscow, was splashed across the cover of N ...

CHINESE FIRMS have dominated almost every legal industry they have entered, from steel to ships, batteries to electric vehicles. They drive down costs and prices and cause no end of consternation in ...

Federal prosecutors expanded their probe into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex crimes in 2007 to include potential charges of money laundering, an effort that included an outreach to one of his most important ...