Money Laundering Quotes

“Compact trash into a cube. Then slice it into thin layers and BOOM—you’ve got pieces of modern art. Each sliver belongs in a museum, doing what it’s designed to do—launder money.”
― Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“After long years tolerating tax evasion by their fellow members of the ruling class, the political leaders of the big Western economies had been forced by the cost of the bank bailouts, the subsequent recession and increasingly widespread hostility to cuts in public services to go after those missing tax revenues. Hence the Americans' pursuit of UBS, Credit Suisse, BSI and the rest. But the City was in a different position. It was not the UK Treasury that the City's clients were primarily cheating. It was everyone else's. And there was one more fact, so huge and so obvious that everyone ignored it the way only problems of such magnitude could be ignored. Tax evasion deprived governments of revenue. Money laundering was the other side of the same coin. Like tax dodging, it was a subversion of money's role as a token of reciprocal altruism that allowed large and diverse societies to function. But while tax evasion sucked money out, money laundering pumped money in. If you could stop yourself thinking about its origins, those inflows of dirty money from around the world were just another source of investment into otherwise declining economies.”
― Tom Burgis, Kleptopia How Dirty Money is Conquering the World & The Looting Machine By Tom Burgis 2 Books Collection Set

“Don't journalists represent the public's right to know what their officials are doing? With today's technology, you can run, but you shouldn't be able to hide.”
― Trine Bronken, The Bloody Business Of Luck

“Money laundering is dirty business. Next time, try duck farming.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“Canada is a preferred destination to launder ill-gotten gains with impunity. Numerous investigations that ultimately went nowhere have revealed weak legislation and an under-resourced enforcement regime that is manifestly not fit for purpose. Chances of getting caught are almost nil, civil and criminal asset forfeiture is weak, and penalties are negligible.”
― Christian Leuprecht, Dirty Money: Financial Crime in Canada (Volume 26)

“Sanders said that it was easy to open exchange accounts using false identification.  He'd signed up for accounts of his own under the name "Taylor Swift".  As verification, he'd sent in a photo of himself in drag, wearing a blond wig, heavy blue eye shadow, and a glittering dress, which displayed his abundant chest hair.  He said crooks who prefer not to dress in drag can buy accounts registered by other people for as little as $20.”
― Zeke Faux, Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

“مِن المعروف جيّدًا أنّ غسلَ الأموال يوجِبُ أن تقبلَ خسَارةَ خمسين مِن مئة منه ، وَ بهذه الطريقة تخسَرُ أقلّ بكثيرٍ مِن ذلك”
― Umberto Eco, Numero zero

“Would you like your money starched, sir? Box or hanger? Thanks for using GloboBank.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke

“Over all, it appeared to be some sort of drug or money laundering front that was having a terribly difficult time of not coming across as both.”
― Mandy Ashcraft, Small Orange Fruit

“I went out of my way to come over here and it'd spoil everything if I had to shoot you before I told you why I had to shoot you.”
― Trine Bronken, The Bloody Business Of Luck

“A politically divided and destabilized America - an America drifting toward white nationalism, authoritarianism, and isolationism - will pose no challenge (...). Page 467.”
― Daniel Silva, The Cellist

“To stay in power, modern autocrats need to be able to take money and hide it without being bothered by political institutions that encourage transparency, accountability, or public debate.”
― Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.