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The lucky laundry / Nathan Lynch.
Van Pelt Library HV6771.A8 L96 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lynch, Nathan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commercial crimes--Australia.
- Commercial crimes.
- Money laundering--Australia.
- Money laundering.
- Money laundering investigation--Australia.
- Money laundering investigation.
- Organized crime--Australia.
- Organized crime.
- Organized crime--Political aspects--Australia.
- Black market--Australia.
- Black market.
- Australia--Economic policy.
- Australia.
- Australia--Politics and government.
- Economic policy.
- Organized crime--Political aspects.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- True crime stories
- True crime stories.
- Physical Description:
- 341 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Luck laundry : how the Aussie economy got hooked on the world's dirtiest cash
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney, NSW : HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2022.
- Summary:
- In today's ruthless world of organised crime, the best criminals aren't foolish enough to steal money out of banks. They wear tailored suits, carry briefcases, and discreetly slip money into banks.Bigwigs, oligarchs and crime syndicates running drugs, trafficking guns and people, arming terrorists and subverting government controls are desperate to put a legitimate face on their wealth. Washing dirty money, moving it around the globe, making it look legitimate is where the action is for both criminals and the authorities chasing them.Australia is awash with dirty money. It flows through our economy, keeps banks running, powers big business, puts coffee on restaurant tables, seeps into clubs, pubs, sport, the art world and anywhere that value is moved. It infiltrates real estate, costs billions in policing, and takes a terrible toll on Australian lives. What law enforcement agencies might lack in legislation and political will, they make up for with sheer resourcefulness. When they can't get at the masterminds and bigwigs, they have honed tactics that intercept the flow of illicit cash and aim to drive a wedge between crooks and their ill-gotten wealth.In The Lucky Laundry, financial crime expert Nathan Lynch delves deep inside this hidden world to explain how dark money has infected the lives of ordinary people - and tainted Australian democracy. He opens the curtain on the hidden world of financial intelligence, where crooks and spooks play a cat-and-mouse game inside the world's black money markets.
- ISBN:
- 9781460759912
- 1460759915
- OCLC:
- 1331091948
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