HOW PEOPLE WASH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS❓🤔
Money laundering isn’t just someone putting “dirty” money into a bank.
In general, it follows 3 stages:
1️⃣ Placement — illicit money enters the financial system.
2️⃣ Layering — transactions, companies, wallets, and transfers are used to make the trail harder to follow.
3️⃣ Integration — the money returns to the legitimate economy through assets, investments, or companies.
The 5 common methods highlighted by AML specialists:
▪️ Businesses with a lot of cash
▪️ Structuring / evading controls (“smurfing”)
▪️ Transaction-based money laundering (trade-based)
▪️ Front companies
▪️ Real estate
Crypto can also appear in the “layering” stage (layers), alongside traditional financial networks.
The goal is always the same: hide the original source of the money and make it look legitimate.
For compliance teams, the key point isn’t only monitoring individual transactions — it’s recognizing the bigger pattern.$NVDAB $AAPLB $NVDA.US #FedOctoberRateHikeOddsFallTo17% #NvidiaHitsRecordHighUp2.4% #USRussiaUkraineTalksReportedlyIncludeLukoilOilDeal #SECProposesCryptoCustodyRules #SECApproves3xLongCryptoCommodityETPs
Money laundering isn’t just someone putting “dirty” money into a bank.
In general, it follows 3 stages:
1️⃣ Placement — illicit money enters the financial system.
2️⃣ Layering — transactions, companies, wallets, and transfers are used to make the trail harder to follow.
3️⃣ Integration — the money returns to the legitimate economy through assets, investments, or companies.
The 5 common methods highlighted by AML specialists:
▪️ Businesses with a lot of cash
▪️ Structuring / evading controls (“smurfing”)
▪️ Transaction-based money laundering (trade-based)
▪️ Front companies
▪️ Real estate
Crypto can also appear in the “layering” stage (layers), alongside traditional financial networks.
The goal is always the same: hide the original source of the money and make it look legitimate.
For compliance teams, the key point isn’t only monitoring individual transactions — it’s recognizing the bigger pattern.$NVDAB $AAPLB $NVDA.US #FedOctoberRateHikeOddsFallTo17% #NvidiaHitsRecordHighUp2.4% #USRussiaUkraineTalksReportedlyIncludeLukoilOilDeal #SECProposesCryptoCustodyRules #SECApproves3xLongCryptoCommodityETPs
