Sentence examples for laundering operations from inspiring English sources
Legit businesses are struggling to compete, and illegitimate businesses are used for money laundering operations.
Experts say there are hundreds of Internet payment systems that do not require users to identify themselves, making it difficult to seize on money laundering operations, Nicole Perlroth reports in The New York Times.
Contraband smuggled into Colombia is part of multibillion-dollar money laundering operations that damage legitimate businesses, undermining Colombia's effort to reinvent itself as a thriving economy after decades of political and drugs-related violence.
Another former drug agency official offered this explanation for the laundering operations: "Building up the evidence to connect the cash to drugs, and connect the first cash pickup to a cartel's command and control, is a very time consuming process.
Money laundering, whether it is low level drug users recycling cash to legitimise their "earnings" or large scale laundering operations as seen in the north east started on FOBTs around 2004 and is only now under the media spotlight.
Prosecutors now believe that Mr. Calvi, known as "God's banker" because of his Vatican connections, was killed for mismanaging Mafia funds and for fear that he would disclose details of extensive money laundering operations.
DealBook » Online Currency Exchange Accused of Laundering $6 Billion | The operators of a global currency exchange ran a $6 billion money laundering operation online, according to federal prosecutors in New York.
The European Community alleges that RJR Nabisco ran an international money laundering operation, which occurred abroad.
In a way, the US political system has become the biggest money laundering operation of all.
The economy was described alternately as a "kleptocracy," "a gigantic laundering operation," "a cartel," "a brigade," and "Saudi Arabia without Islam".
He doesn't shoot a fellow detective in the face, then hold up an Armenian money laundering operation for $2m to pay for his autistic child's tuition.
