Drugs and Money
Subtitle: Laundering Latin America's Cocaine Dollars
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: March 30, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780275970420
Subjects: Crime & criminology; Criminal law; International Law; Drug Crimes; Social Science; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; The Americas; Criminology; Finance; General; Social Science / Criminology; Case studies; Cocaine industry; Drug dealers; Latin America; Money laundering
First sentence: Money laundering is the means used to convert funds that proceed from illegal activities, such as narcotics trafficking, prostitution, casino gambling skimming, and many others, into financial uses that involve legal instruments (such as bank deposits, investments in stocks and bonds or real estate, etc.).