Of even greater concern is that the investigations appeared to suggest that senior government figures were engaged in sanctions-busting against Iran, and that these senior figures had links to financiers who laundered funds for al-Qaida.
The US indictment that charged 14 Fifa officials of 47 counts of racketeering and fraud had earlier alleged that Warner "laundered the funds through accounts held in the name of a large supermarket chain and affiliated investment company in Trinidad".
Janoušek, who has long faced allegations that he laundered millions of dollars through a Swiss bank alongside other extensive allegations of corruption including rigging public tenders, was eventually charged on Sunday with causing grievous bodily harm as well as driving under the influence of an addictive substance.
In the 1990s hundreds of objects plundered from tombs in Italy and elsewhere were tracked down to Geneva's warehouse (along with papers showing that some had been laundered by being sold at auction to straw buyers, then handed straight back with the legitimate purchase documents).
This was in part because China is nervous at allowing identifiably "laundered" funds to flow out through its banking system.
Barack Obama has said that America should do more to halt the southward flow of guns and laundered money to the traffickers.
Moreover, one of Mr Berezovsky's newspapers tried to blame Mr Luzhkov for another scandal, claiming that the billions of dollars allegedly laundered by Russians through a bank in New York came from Sistema, a company close to the Moscow city government.In this section Pascal Lamy, free-market Frenchman?
This is probably still too much, but it does at least comfortably beat my benchmark: the cost of having one of my own shirts laundered at the hotel.Walking past the Revolutionary History Museum (now closed and being redeveloped as simply the "national museum"), on the way to Tiananmen Square, I recall another painful haggle.
America is getting impatient with the dirty money of Latin American drug barons being laundered in the Caribbean.
Power no longer derives from dominating a trade or a neighbourhood, but from connecting illicit operators with one another or with "overground" businesses where money can be laundered.
No one can quantify how much money is laundered in Macau, but it's "such an obscene amount of money you would die", one resident avows.Mainland China offers scant legal protection for private property.
