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The High Street Solicitor and the Proceeds of Criminal Activity — The Risks
Andrew CampbellIn this article attention will focus on the risks to high street solicitors in England and Wales who handle money on behalf of clients which may be the proceeds of criminal…
Breaking the Billion Dollar Barrier — Learning the Lessons of BNL, Daiwa, Barings and BCCI
Thomas C. BaxterCorruption in banking — the topic of this paper, is at the very heart of such practices as money laundering. To illustrate this point, examined below are four specific cases…
Taking the Profit out of Crime
Martyn J. BridgesThis paper will consider the link between tax evasion and economic crime and how the tax system can be used to take the profit out of crime.
Integration of Criminal Capital from Russia into West European Markets: An Assessment of Threat
Timur SinurayaThe development of organised crime in today's Russia is, first of all, a study of its powers. These powers are not a fixed form of dominion but a constantly shifting, dynamic…
Beating the Shell Game: Bank Secrecy Laws and Their Impact on Civil Recovery in International Fraud Actions
George J. Moscarino, Michael R. ShumakerThis decree by the Nazi Government in 1933 is probably the single most important event leading to the advent of bank secrecy laws as we know them today. This criminal provision…
Money Laundering: Transnational Criminals, Globalisation and the Forces of ‘Redomestication’
Jarrod WienerMany scholars of international relations have long argued that by plotting on a map of the world all the transnational contacts of private individuals the international system…
The Business of Organised Crime in Japan
Hiroshi GotoHistorians may write that the 1980s were the decade when Japan proved itself to be an economic power competitive with other leading nations, and by the end of it, the power had…
Drugs and Organised Crime in Latin America
George Henry MillardAll the ingredients required to produce highly profitable illicit drugs can be found in Latin America. Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia provide the coca plantations and chemicals come…
European Union: The Fight against International Corruption — Modelling the Member States' National Laws through Multilateral Anti‐Corruption Instruments?
G. VermeulenTraditionally the application of national criminal law is limited to national territory. According to the territorial principle — which takes a central place in most jurisdictions…
Nigeria: Critique of the Money Laundering Degree No. 3 1995
Uche OsimiriThe purport of the Money Laundering Decree No. 3 1995 (hereinafter referred to the the Decree) is visible in three perspectives. The first part prohibits money laundering in all…
Hong Kong: Money Laundering Legislation
Michael ChanIn Hong Kong money laundering is mainly governed by two ordinances:
South Africa: Money Laundering Regulation — The Way Ahead
Franso van ZylMoney laundering is a problem not only in the world's major financial centres. Any country integrated into the international financial system is at risk. Increased efforts by…
Cayman Islands: Anti Money‐Laundering Legislation — The Proceeds of Criminal Conduct Law 1996
Daniel Harris, Stephen Hellman‘Q. Why the Caymans? You could have gone anywhere. You had a lot of money. You could have gone to Paris, the Bahamas?
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1368-5201Online date, start – end:
1997Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr Li Hong Xing
- Prof Barry Rider