launder
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They also allege that Pulido worked with Alex Saab to launder $350m from a separate bribery scheme involving Venezuela's currency exchange system using bank accounts in Florida.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Shell companies are dangerous because they are used both by criminal organizations to evade sanctions and launder money and by the rich to avoid taxes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026
North Korea’s Lazarus Group External link, among the most sophisticated crypto-enabled criminal organizations in the world, relied heavily on the DeFi mixer Tornado Cash to launder funds.
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026
Sanctions also targeted entities the Treasury Department says help launder the proceeds of Iranian oil through a shadow banking network.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026
I launder the napkins and tablecloths entirely at my own discretion.
From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich
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Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control also designated three leaders and supporters of an Iran-aligned militia in Iraq, Kataib Hezbollah, as well as a business that it says moves and launders funds for the organization.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024
“Today, Treasury is sanctioning Tornado Cash, a virtual currency mixer that launders the proceeds of cybercrimes, including those committed against victims in the United States,” Nelson said.
From The Verge ● Aug. 8, 2022
But the game launders this good idea into a bad one by making many enemies invulnerable unless your character has reached a certain level.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2020
Bethany launders them in-house and places them in a tub in the entryway, for workers to don each day after taking their temperature and passing a screening.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 3, 2020
Who feeds him and launders him and mends him?
From Still Jim by Honoré Morrow
The FBI added that it had observed "TraderTraitor actors" converting stolen assets into Ethereum, and expected those assets to be laundered further by converting them using decentralized finance and instant swap services.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
By contrast, gold from informal mines is often laundered into regular supply chains through smaller local refineries and subsequently exported to sites in Dubai and India where it is used to make jewelry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
One victim in Missouri reportedly lost more than $16 million, while millions of dollars in suspected scam proceeds were allegedly laundered through cryptocurrency.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
Operation Jackal IV - which took place between November 2025 and June 2026 - investigated how the groups laundered money and how financial fraud cyber crimes, such as cryptocurrency and email compromise fraud, were conducted.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
I think of orthopedic shoes, lisle stockings, underwear laundered thin and gray, coal cellars.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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Three countries are on the FATF's black list of countries that are high risk for money laundering and terrorism financing: Iran, Myanmar and North Korea.
From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026
The court also opened another investigation into him this month over alleged money laundering related to his ties to a lawyer involved in Brazil’s online betting industry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Betancourt surfaced as a suspect in the U.S. case and is still under investigation for suspected money laundering by authorities in Spain, according to former U.S. and European officials and press reports.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
Those failures included not flagging transactions that possibly involved Chinese money laundering networks or trade-based laundering "with a substantial nexus to the southwest border", according to the Treasury.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
“I do laundering and mending. I’m even good with a hammer and nail.”
From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool
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