Crime doesn't pay, or so we are told. But the truth is that it can, if crooks manage to transform tainted money into "clean" cash. Money-laundering has been the target of enforcement agencies for years, but they have redoubled their efforts since the September 11th attacks. Though money-laundering is in some ways the opposite of terrorist finance-one takes dirty money and tries to make it look clean, the other uses money that can be legitimate for illegitimate ends—the investigations that followed those attacks showed just how easy it was to use banks for improper ends.
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