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launder

[lawn-der, lahn-] / ˈlɔn dər, ˈlɑn- /


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Meanwhile, a "fraud blitz" involving 500 new officers will be part of a crackdown on gangs who are accused of using Post Offices and High Street shops to "launder illicit billions", the Metro reports.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

The Treasury Department also sanctioned the manager of Bank Melli’s Dubai branch and sanctioned a Hong Kong-based front company that it said had helped launder funds for a sanctioned Iranian exchange house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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

The whole point of the CDO was to launder a lot of subprime mortgage market risk that the firms had been unable to place straightforwardly.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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

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

He launders impropriety with a functionary’s demeanor and a spin doctor’s acumen.

From Slate ● May 2, 2019

Nor would there be any difficulty in making reservoirs upon the ridge-tops, with launders, or gutters, to collect the rain.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton

When you’ve done that, you can start to feel the excitement of owning a freshly laundered $100 bill.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

Danicley de Aguiar, coordinator of Greenpeace Brazil's Indigenous Peoples' campaign told AFP that gold taken from protected areas was likely laundered through such schemes.

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

The Treasury also designated the two exchanges “terror assets” and said Zanjani had laundered money and provided funding for Revolutionary Guard projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

The whole letter is Bezos’ grievance talking, laundered through one of his fixers.

From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2026

I know what this change of uniform means; every so often I had been told in the other camp that my clothes would be laundered, disinfected and returned to me.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper

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

Some of these involved risks related to national security and other concerns, including transactions "indicative of Chinese money laundering networks" and illicit finance around the southwest US border.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

The bureau’s investigation focuses on potential money laundering and surrogacy fraud crimes, according to the two law enforcement sources, who requested anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

A spokesperson for Zanjani also previously told the Journal that the financier “has neither required nor relied upon any cryptocurrency exchange for the purpose of money laundering or sanction evasion.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

So while Osage boys at other institutions learned farming and carpentry, Mollie was trained in the “domestic arts”: sewing, baking, laundering, and housekeeping.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann




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