SCOR: The risk of money laundering: Prevention, challenges, outlook

The laundering of dirty money plays a key role in a large proportion of criminal activity which, according to international experts, generates around 1,500 billion dollars per year. To introduce these funds in the legal economy, the holders must provide them with an appearance of legitimacy, subjecting the dirty money to a whole series of transformations, with varying degrees of complexity, most often using mechanisms and techniques to facilitate the conclusion of the transactions, the circulation of clean money and the smooth running of the economy.

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