drug money
Illicit pharmaceutical revenue
Drug money is cash or assets derived from the illegal drug trade.
The term appears in discussions of law enforcement, money laundering, and organized crime: The cartel used shell companies to clean its drug money.
Drug money often implies large sums that must be hidden or legitimized to avoid detection.
- launderingCleaning fabric items
- cartelPrice-fixing coalition
- cashReady spending funds
- unmarked billsCurrency lacking identifying features
- dirtyNot clean
dirty cash · narcotics · trafficking · smuggling · stash · offshore · kingpin · contraband · black market · wire · wire transfer · paper trail · mule · bust · seized · hidden · slush fund · shell company
- dirty moneyill-gotten gains, illicit funds, illicit gains, proceeds of crime, filthy lucre
- narcotraffickingnarcos, cartel, cartels, kingpin, traffickers
- forfeitureforfeiture, civil forfeiture, asset forfeiture, asset seizure, property seizure
- hidden incomeunreported income, undeclared, hidden income, off the books, under the table
- drugsibuprofen, marijuana, aspirin, meth, cocaine
- financial crimesbank fraud, wire fraud, securities fraud, tax fraud, insurance fraud
drug moneyearned income
Pay from work
taxable income · salary · paycheck · business profits · investment returns
drug moneycharitable donations
Gifts to worthy causes
sweat equity · philanthropic funds · pension · social security
drug, money, drugs, drugged, drugging, druggy, moneys, monies, moneyed