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Fundamental Concepts

Background and definitions

Key processes in money laundering and terrorist financing

Money laundering

Terrorist financing

Further differences between terrorist financing and classical money laundering

Suspicion recognition

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BACKGROUND AND DEFINITIONS

Definitions

Money laundering is the conversion or transfer of money to disguise its illegal origins; or the use of the financial system to convert or transfer money or other assets so as to disguise their illegal origins. (AML is the acronym used for Anti-Money ...

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