Illicit Finance Quotes

The Latin American debt that reached crisis levels from 1982 would have been sharply reduced by return of flight capital - in some cases, overcome, though all figures are dubious for these secret and often illegal operations.

The left is being funded primarily by the drug traffickers who provide this tax money and that's why the guerrillas in Colombia, unlike the guerrillas anywhere else in Latin America, have been able to survive for 40 years because they have a hard, solid source of income.

Money is the lifeblood of terrorist operations.

Bitcoin is successful only because of its potential for circumvention, lack of oversight.

Money laundering is not a crime. It's just because certain men with guns don't like what other people are doing with their own money, so they decide it's okay to lock those people in a cage.

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient.

Reliable numbers about the amount of dirty money around the world are difficult to come by. But according to an estimate by the nonprofit Global Financial Integrity group, $1 trillion vanishes from the developing world's economies every year.

A holding company is the people you give your money to while you're being searched.

It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.

When we started out, there was so much cash involved that it attracted an element you'd rather not do business with.

We are kidding ourselves if we don't think of the drug business as a legitimate business. It's what funds governments. It's too much money to ignore.

Those involved in organized crime are generally motivated by one thing–profit. Huge sums of money are generated through arms smuggling, trafficking of human beings and narcotic substances, and financial crimes. These monies are laundered so that they have the appearance in our financial system of the proceeds of legitimate business activity.

If you really want to introduce corruption into legal marijuana, make it an all cash business.

I think money laundering is giving oxygen to organized crime.

Canada has become such a staging area for Chinese money.

Furthermore, a large portion of the assets of leading Russian figures is mixed, meaning that it is not quite clear how to counter this development.

The Globe reports that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il raises money by selling fake Viagra pills. What it is about this guy? None of his missiles seem to launch.