Ep:1 History and Birth of Money Laundering and where this all came from.

Money laundering as a crime only attracted interest in the 1980s, essentially within a drug trafficking context. It was from an increasing awareness of the huge profits generated from this criminal activity and a concern at the massive drug abuse problem in western society . Governments also recognised that criminal organisations, through the huge profits they earned from drugs, could contaminate and corrupt the structures of the state at all levels. Money laundering is a truly global phenomenon, helped by the International financial community which is a 24hrs a day business. When one financial centre closes business for the day, another one is opening or open for business.

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