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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
From ruined towns on the edge of Siberia, to Bond-villain lairs in London and Manhattan, something has gone wrong. Kleptocracies, governments run by corrupt leaders that prosper at the expense of their people, are on the rise. Join the investigative journalist Oliver Bullough on a journey into Moneyland--the secret country of the lawless, stateless superrich. Learn how the institutions of Europe and the United States have become money-laundering operations,...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (226 p.)
Language
English
Description
"A how-to guide for the discovery and prevention of the illegal transfer of money Written for the private sector--where most money laundering takes place--this book clearly explains shows business professionals how to deter, detect, and resolve financial fraud cases internally. It expertly provides an understanding of the mechanisms, tools to detect issues, and action lists to recover hidden funds. Provides action-oriented material that will show...
Author
Publisher
Apress
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xviii, 294 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
Money laundering is endemic. As much as 5 percent of global GDP ($3.6 trillion) is laundered by criminals each year. It's no wonder that every financial institution in the United States must comply with complex requirements mandated by a welter of federal anti-money laundering (AML) laws. Financial institutions and businesses that unknowingly serve as conduits for money laundering are no less liable to prosecution and fines than those that condone...
Author
Series
Martin Hench volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A self-employed forensic accountant, 67-year-old Martin Hench, a world-level expert on international money-laundering and shell-company chicanery, is roped into a job that’s more dangerous than anything he’s ever agreed to before – one that will take all his skill to get out alive.
6) Prodigal son
Author
Series
Evan Smoak thrillers volume 6
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new name-The Nowhere Man-and a new mission, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. But the highest power in the country has made him a tempting offer-in exchange for an unofficial...
Author
Language
English
Description
Carr--ex-CIA--is the reluctant leader of an elite crew planning to take tens of millions of dollars belonging to a disgraced financier, Curtis Prager. But Carr's seasoned pros are wound drum-tight--months before, the man who brought them together was killed in what Carr suspects was a setup.
8) Reamde
Author
Series
Dodge novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
When his own high-tech start up turns into a Fortune 500 computer gaming group, Richard Forthrast, the black sheep of an Iowa family who has amassed an illegal fortune, finds the line between fantasy and reality becoming blurred when a virtual war for dominance is triggered.
Author
Series
Evan Smoak thrillers volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Former assassin Evan Smoak is using his deadly skills to assist Max Merriweather, a guy down on his luck, whose cousin's murder has brought him to the attention of an Armenian street gang involved in a money-laundering scheme. It seems like an easy enough task for the Nowhere Man, but as soon as he eliminates one threat, a more powerful one appears, and getting to the top of the pyramid requires courage, wit, creativity, and a lot of specialty weapons."...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"Effectively implement comprehensive anti-money laundering regulationsHandbook of Anti-Money Laundering details the most up-to-date regulations and provides practical guidance toward implementation. While most books focus on the regulations themselves, this useful guide goes further by explaining their meaning to bank operations, and how the rules apply to real-life scenarios. The international perspective provides a broader understanding of the anti-money...
11) Anti-money laundering in a nutshell: awareness and compliance for financial personnel and business
Author
Publisher
Apress
Pub. Date
Ã2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Anti-Money Laundering in a Nutshellis a concise, accessible, and practical guide to compliance with anti-money laundering law for financial professionals, corporate investigators, business managers, and all personnel of financial institutions who are required, under penalty of hefty fines, to get anti-money laundering training. Money laundering is endemic. As much as 5 percent of global GDP ($3.6 trillion) is laundered by criminals each year. It's...
12) Zero zero zero
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An analysis of the international cocaine trade and its less-understood role in the global economy explores its rules, armies and influence on everyday life, detailing the arrangements among leading cartels and the violent extent of their power.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When business partners, friends and housemates Lou Henry and Bud Flick become involved in a money-laundering scheme, they risk not only their partnership and friendship, but jeopardize the welfare of the two orphaned children who they have taken into their home to raise. Add to the mix the hot-on-their heels welfare worker Miss Mayberry who considers the living arrangements to be less than ideal for the children.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 446 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The investigative journalist draws on insider interviews to expose the role of international corruption and organized crime on the political arenas of today's world.
15) Three summers
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Madâ, is a fifty-something caretaker for a cluster of luxury beachside condos owned by a wealthy Rio de Janeiro family. Unfolding over the course of three consecutive summers, 2015 to 2017, the film follows Madâ as she invests in a roadside snack kiosk while tending to the very need of her condescending employers, becomes a bystander in a major money-laundering scandal, and eventually launches a whole new career. With every dizzying new turn of...
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Uncover the financial fraud that funds terrorist organizations Trade-Based Money Laundering is an authoritative examination of this burgeoning phenomenon, now coming under scrutiny in the War on Terror. This book walks you through the signs and patterns of trade-based money laundering (TBML) to help you recognize it when it occurs, and shows you how data and analytics can be used to detect it. You'll learn the common value transfer techniques including...
17) The drop
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lonely bartender Bob Saginowski and his hardened employer cousin Marv run a bar that is used as a 'drop'--a covert scheme that funnels cash to local gangsters. But when they find themselves caught in a robbery gone bad, and on the hook for a debt they can't repay, both men have to make the dangerous choice between loyalty and survival.
18) Black money
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[1994]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Michael Lewis first met him, Sam Bankman-Fried was the world's youngest billionaire and crypto's Gatsby. CEOs, celebrities, and leaders of small countries all vied for his time and cash after he catapulted, practically overnight, onto the Forbes billionaire list. Who was this rumpled guy in cargo shorts and limp white socks, whose eyes twitched across Zoom meetings as he played video games on the side? In Going Infinite, Lewis sets out to answer...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he discovers stranded Cuban refugees during a fishing outing turned tragedy, newsman Luke Blackburn becomes the center of a media firestorm that threatens to blow up his marriage while his star investigative reporter slowly pieces together a story of corruption and cartel money in his refuge, Key West.
The newsman in Luke Blackburn shuns the spotlight when he and his old friend, now the county mayor in Key West, discover stranded Cuban refugees...
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