Journal of Money Laundering Control: Volume 10 Issue 3

What asset forfeiture teaches us about providing restitution in fraud cases

Courtney J. Linn

In today's global economy, the public routinely engages in international financial transactions via the internet. This has created opportunities for online fraud. The paper aims…

The new policing of assets and the new assets of policing: A tentative financial cost‐benefit analysis of the UK's anti‐money laundering and asset recovery regime

Peter A. Sproat

Asset recovery and the incentivisation of law enforcement is a theme within both the official and critical discourses on anti‐money laundering and asset recovery. This paper…

The wealth effects of the USA Patriot Act: evidence from the banking and thrift industries

Burak Dolar, William F. Shughart

Title III of the USA Patriot Act obligated the private sector to take a more active role in deterring money laundering and disrupting terrorist financing. Complying with the new…

Legal professionals and money laundering in Spain

Patricia Faraldo Cabana

The purpose of this paper is to analyse those obligations to share information and deliver assistance which flow from the legislation intended to prevent the money laundering as…

Are OFCs leading the fight against money laundering?

Alexa Rosdol

To examine if recent changes to the law and practice of certain offshore financial centres (OFCs) means that some OFCs now have more stringent anti‐money laundering measures in…

Factors affecting money laundering: lesson for developing countries

Santha Vaithilingam, Mahendhiran Nair

The primary objective of this paper is to examine the factors that underpin the pervasiveness of money laundering. An empirical method was used to study the relationship between…

Problems of black labour, illegal immigration and money laundering in Poland

Janusz Bojarski

The aim of the paper is to present a picture of black labour, illegal immigration and money laundering at a special moment in the history of Poland – the time of Polish accession…

The business of crime

Dr Chizu Nakajima

More jobs for the boys

Barry Rider