money launderer
Dirty funds processor
A money launderer is someone who disguises illegally obtained money by moving it through legitimate businesses or financial systems to make it appear lawful.
The term evokes washing dirty money clean: The casino owner was convicted as a money launderer for the cartel.
Money launderers face serious criminal penalties in most jurisdictions.
- criminalPerson who breaks laws
- offshoreAway from land
- shell companyInactive firm for transactions
- shell corporationLegally registered but inactive business
- dirty cashIllegally acquired money
Swiss bank · numbered account · bank secrecy · Cayman Islands · wire transfer · front business · front man · straw man · cash · cartel · smuggler · accountant · casino · real estate · cryptocurrency · traced · federal agent · prosecution
- Crookscrook, swindler, fraudster, embezzler, con artist
- lawbreakersthief, robber, burglar, vandal, smuggler
- accomplicesaccomplice, accessory, co-conspirator, abettor, collaborator
- criminalsmurderer, thief, burglar, criminal, killer
- Traffickingdrug trafficking, trafficking, trafficker, drug smuggling, smuggling
- swindlerscon artist, swindler, fraudster, scammer, grifter
money launderercompliance officer
Oversees organizational rule-following
forensic accountant · financial regulator · bank examiner · auditor · honest broker
money, launder, moneys, monies, moneyed, monetary, monetize, monetization, launderer