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The washing machine
- Title
- The washing machine / Nick Kochan.
- Author
- Kochan, Nick.
- Publication
- Mason, Ohio : Thomson, [2005], ©2005.
- Supplementary Content
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- Description
- xxiii, 325 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "The Washing Machine takes readers deep inside the intricate world of money laundering. Kochan offers insight into, and explanation of, the murky world of illegal financial dealings over the past 30 years and the sometimes-heroic attempts to combat it. In the hands of the author, the launderers' sophistication becomes understandable and captivating, as the characters and stories woven into the explanations are brought vividly to life."--Jacket.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Case studies.
- Note
- Subtitle on spine: How money laundering and terrorist financing soils us.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-316) and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- View table of contents on the Internet via the World Wide Web.
- Contents
- The Russian mafia -- BoNYgate -- "Merchant of death" -- Al Qaida : a recipe for sustainable terrorism? -- The many-headed hydra--Ireland, Turkey, Sri Lanka -- Diamonds : a launderer's best friend -- Columbia's half trillion -- Smoking guns -- Cover-up! bankers and their corrupt clients -- The Casablanca sting -- Laundering footmen -- America's clampdown on terrorist financing -- Enforcement in a frenzy -- London : offshore, onshore -- Cyber launderers, cyber detectives.
- ISBN
- 1587991594
- 9781587991592
- LCCN
- 2005008693
- OCLC
- ocm58789422
- 58789422
- SCSB-9227348
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries