Definition of money-laundering of capitals

The concept of money laundering is closely linked to organized groups of criminalisation, e.g. mafias, posters, etc. As its name suggests, the fundamental idea of the money laundering is to transform the economic benefits of an illegal activity, in such a way that "dirty" and illegal money gets clean, i.e. bleaching.

The money laundering mechanisms

Money laundering begins with the placement of the illicit money (for example, from the traffic of drugs or prostitution networks) into the legal financial system. So money is not suspected be split amounts in deposits of small claims and different banks. Another strategy to hide the illicit money is to mix the quantities obtained in bank accounts and real companies with a standardized activity.
If the volume of money that wants to whiten is very high you choose opaque financial institution and that is free of conventional banking controls. These entities that receive the money are known as tax havens.
Money transport can be performed through specialized intermediaries or including money in a shipment of goods.
Incomes of illicit origin can allocate financial products with high liquidity or used for the purchase of goods with high value.
One of the keys to the money laundering is away as much as possible the origin of the money from its final destination, which is relied on to entities, financial shelters, etc. These actions of financial engineering aims to erase the trace of the money and be able to continue with the illegal activities that generate it.
Laundered through complex financial systems capital manages to have a legal appearance and is at the disposal of other legal entities, many of them created precisely with the purpose that the money laundering is the most effective.
Legislation protecting the secrecy makes it difficult to detect money-laundering operations.