Chasing dirty money : the fight against money laundering / Peter Reuter and Edwin M. Truman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reuter, Peter, 1944-

Contributor:

Truman, Edwin M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Money laundering.

Money laundering investigation.

Physical Description:

xv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Fight against money laundering

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Institute for International Economics, 2004.

Summary:

Originally developed to reduce drug trafficking, national and international efforts to stymie money laundering have broadened over the years to address other crimes and, most recently, terrorism. These efforts now constitute a formidable regime applied to financial institutions and transactions throughout much of the world. Yet few assessments of either the achievements or consequences of this regime have been made. Reuter and Truman (1) explore what is known about the scale and characteristics of money laundering, (2) describe the current anti-money laundering regime, (3) develop a framework for assessing the effectiveness of the regime, (4) use that framework to assess how well the current system works and (5) make proposals for its improvement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-200) and index.

"November 2004."

ISBN:

0881323705

OCLC:

57188072