The Sink by Jeffrey Robinson

The Sink by Jeffrey Robinson

The Money Sink tells the how, when and why of criminal and terrorist money laundering, the murky and ultra-secret world where the line between legitimate business and crime vanishes. In 1994, when Jeffrey Robinson, author of The Laundrymen, first brought to the world's attention the problems of dirty money - revealing how otherwise legitimate lawyers, bankers, accountants and even governments were helping drug traffickers hide the proceeds of their crimes - he labelled money laundering the world's third largest business, estimating that at any given time there was around $300 billion circling the globe, looking to get clean. Now, in the sequel to The Laundrymen, Robinson calculates that the dirty money business has doubled in less than ten years and is ever more sophisticated (law enforcement and concerned governments flounder in its wake) - and he lays the blame on the offshore world. In an eye-opening piece of investigative journalism, Robinson reveals the state of the art of business-as-crime worldwide. As vast profits are turned into seemingly legitimate money, lawyers, bankers, accountants, brokers and governments have sold out to the mob and terrorists learn the lessons too and use Western financial networks to finance attacks on those same systems.

The author of the bestselling The Laundrymen (1994) reveals that the dirty money business has doubled in value since he wrote that classic exposTerrorists and organised crime are even more adept than they once were at exploiting the world's money markets for their own illegal ends and leaving governments and law enforcement stumped for ways to stop them. New technology and advances in IT have made it easier, not harder, for terrorists and criminals to launder cash, notably through offshore banking where rules and regulations are lax and difficult to police. Still a headline-grabbing story and bound to drum up plenty of publicity.

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ISBN 13	9781841196824
ISBN 10	1841196827
Title	The Sink
Author	Jeffrey Robinson
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Little, Brown Book Group
Year published	2003-09-25
Number of pages	288
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