Dirty Money: How the UK Securities and Derivatives Markets are Used to Launder Money

Abstract

The increasing publicity of recent high‐profile money‐laundering cases has propelled this apparently victimless crime into the forefront of the public domain. However, although this has been one of the government's principal aims — to increase public awareness — there is still a lack of common knowledge within the public domain of what constitutes a money‐laundering offence. The job is further complicated by the fact that this invisible crime operates on the fringes of society, acting as a bridge between the underworld and the rest.