Before revision:   We investigate here  recent data on illicit financial flows from developing countries and reveal that the data does submit to Benford's law . Further, the general improvement in the statistical accuracy we find here supports the applicability of the two stage normalization in filtering out countries from database for which illicit financial flows are not substantial .
After revision:  We investigate here the distribution of the leading digits in the recent data on illicit financial flows from developing countries and reveal that the data does submit to Benford's law . Further, the general improvement in the statistical accuracy we find here supports the applicability of the two stage normalization in filtering out countries from database for which illicit financial flows are not substantial .