Abstract

This chapter illustrates the long-standing interest of organised crime gangs–in this instance, various Mafia families in the United States–in money laundering via sports gambling-related means. It seeks to assess the vulnerabilities of international sport to match-fixing, as motivated in part by the associated secondary criminality of tax evasion and transnational economic crime. The chapter suggests that sport's vulnerability as a channel for criminals to launder the proceeds of their illegal activities is not just confined to gambling-related match-fixing but has an even wider corruptive base. It must be admitted that match-fixing in sport, although almost always motivated for illegal betting purposes, can and does take place in the absence of money laundering. Money laundering is an essential component to the further profitisation of transnational crime. In July 2009, the Financial Action Task Force published a major study on money laundering through the professional football industry.

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