Drugs and Money Laundering in Panama
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 70
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 70
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on Terrorism, Narcotics, and International Communications
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 466
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: International Monetary Fund. Legal Dept.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 2014-02-18
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 1475559747
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This report evaluates the level of implementation of Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendations for Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) in Panama. The findings reveal that Panama is vulnerable to money laundering from a number of sources, including drug trafficking and other predicate crimes committed abroad, such as fraud and financial and tax crimes. The AML Law covers most of the core financial sectors but does not fully apply to the insurance sector and does not extend to a number of other financial activities as required under the FATF standard. Competent authorities, including law enforcement and the Financial Intelligence Unit, do not have timely access to information on legal persons and arrangements as required under the FATF standard.
Author: Robert E. Grosse
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2001-03-30
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0313002460
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Money laundering has been around as long as there have been illicit businesses, since criminals have always had to convert their ill-gotten gains into clean financial instruments in order to utilize them in legitimate business. Grosse explores how drug traffickers turn profits from street sales of cocaine and crack into bank accounts, airplanes, securities investments, and other uses. These schemes are both creative and extensive, from shipping suitcases of dollars to Mexico, to buying gold with drug cash in California, to faking the export of clothing from Colombia to Panama. The amounts of money involved are often staggering--hundreds of millions of dollars in most cases. Grosse also considers some of the issues raised by money laundering. He offers advice to banks and other financial institutions that hope to avoid becoming involved in a money laundering process. He examines the social costs and benefits of money laundering, in particular the charge that the rapid development of Miami in the 1980s was due directly to the hundreds of millions of cocaine dollars invested in real estate and businesses by the cocaine cowboys. Increasing law enforcement has, in Grosse's opinion, only resulted in more clever laundering schemes, and recent discussion about legalizing narcotics will prove even more costly for the United States.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 64
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 94
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lawrence S. Eagleburger
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 12
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy, and Human Resources
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Jake Bernstein
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
Published: 2017-11-21
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 125012669X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Secrecy World is the inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Laundromat from Director Steven Soderbergh, Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, and Antonio Banderas A two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist takes us inside the world revealed by the Panama Papers, a landscape of illicit money, political corruption, and fraud on a global scale. A hidden circulatory system flows beneath the surface of global finance, carrying trillions of dollars from drug trafficking, tax evasion, bribery, and other illegal enterprises. This network masks the identities of the individuals who benefit from these activities, aided by bankers, lawyers, and auditors who get paid to look the other way. In Secrecy World, the Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter Jake Bernstein explores this shadow economy and how it evolved, drawing on millions of leaked documents from the files of the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca—a trove now known as the Panama Papers—as well as other journalistic and government investigations. Bernstein shows how shell companies operate, how they allow the superwealthy and celebrities to escape taxes, and how they provide cover for illicit activities on a massive scale by crime bosses and corrupt politicians across the globe. Bernstein traveled to the Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and within the United States to uncover how these strands fit together—who is involved, how they operate, and the real-world impact. He recounts how Mossack Fonseca was exposed and what lies ahead for the corporations, banks, law firms, individuals, and governments that are implicated. Secrecy World offers a disturbing and sobering view of how the world really works and raises critical questions about financial and legal institutions we may once have trusted.