Chasing Dirty Money: The Fight Against Money Laundering - Softcover

Peter Reuter; Edwin M. Truman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0881323705 ISBN 13: 9780881323702

Publisher: Peterson Inst Int Economics, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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Product Description:

National and international efforts to reduce money laundering were originally developed to reduce drug trafficking and have broadened over the years to address many other crimes and, most recently, terrorism. They now constitute a formidable regime applied to financial and nonfinancial institutions and transactions throughout much of the world. In this study, the authors (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, and (4) use that framework to assess how well the current system works and make proposals for its improvement.

Review:

Persons interested in AML policy will find the analyses and discussions in the book enlightening.--International Enforcement Law Reporter

[T]he most comprehensive treatment of money laundering to date and... the benchmark by which all future discussions of the subject will be assessed.--Robert E. Litan, Kauffman Foundation

...the most seminal study ever undertaken of the effectiveness of global efforts to deal with the growing threat to US national security and to the world financial system of money laundering.--Stuart E. Eizenstat, former deputy secretary of the US Treasury

About this edition

• Publisher: Peterson Inst Int Economics
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0881323705
• ISBN 13: 9780881323702
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248