SEASON 4 · EPISODE 11 · 19:18
Trade based money laundering - a penny for your thoughts?
Ray Blake & Graham Barrow · 27 May 2020
Episode notes
In this episode we cover the foundations of trade based money laundering, what it is and how, classically, it is done. Along the way we make some surprising price discoveries on Amazon, compare a pair of tweezers to the size of a hydrogen atom and discover an unlikely candidate for dual use goods.
Link to the John Zdanowicz TBML research: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46556338_Trade-Based_Money_Laundering_and_Terrorist_Financing
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