The Launderer's Code

by Smarak Swain

Digyen Burmah is a Chartered Accountant by qualification, a forensic auditor by profession, and also engages in corporate espionage. Having been discredited in his last job, he has difficulties in getting employed, but has no qualms in living off his wife's salary. He is approached by an old school friend from Bangalore to find his wife and co-worker, who mysteriously vanished during an official tour. The company he works for has been resisting his attempts at finding his wife.

Burmah investigates the company and unearths shady deals in tax havens, transactions with hawala agents, cash payments to influence Indian elections, and many more shocking details. Did his friend's wife know too much? Or was she a conduit in the hawala channel used to transport money across borders? Whose money is it laundering? What agenda is it pursuing in the garb of developing software?

Based on true stories from income tax raids, this story brings to fore how hawala agents operate, and how they act as bankers of the parallel economy.

235 pages, Paperback

Published June 22, 2021