Troika Laundromat reveals the gaps in AML compliance
Jaclyn Jaeger
www.complianceweek.com
Compliance Week
April 1, 2019
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“Trade-based money laundering. As with many Laundromats, trade-based money laundering involves criminals moving substantial sums of money across borders by fraudulently manipulating the price, quantity, or quality of a good or service on an invoice submitted to customs. “The bad guys count on the chances of them being caught as being very low, because they’re able to hide within that sea of otherwise legitimate transactions,” says Art Middlemiss, former director of the global anti-corruption program at JPMorgan Chase and now a partner at Lewis Baach Kaufmann Middlemiss.