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●● Who oversees money laundering?.
Answer: federal regulations like the USA PATRIOT Act,
●● What is AML mean?.
Answer: AML refers collectively to laws, policies, and company
programs intended to deter and detect money laundering.
●● The first stage in the money laundering process is called?.
Answer: placement
●● What does placement mean?.
Answer: brings the illicit cash into the legal financial system
●● What is structuring?.
Answer: the practice of breaking up large cash transactions into multiple
smaller transactions (for the purpose of evading reporting or
recordkeeping requirements
,●● What is the 2nd step of money laundering?.
Answer: Layering
●● What is layering?.
Answer: cash equivalents obtained in the placement stage are used to
purchase a variety of financial instruments
●● What are some examples of sophisticated financial products.
Answer: can include cash value life insurance and deferred annuity
contracts.
●● What is the 3rd and final step in money laundering?.
Answer: Integration
●● What is integration?.
Answer: cleansed money is circulated back into the hands of the
criminal and ultimately into the financial system
●● Cash value life insurance and deferred annuity contracts provide
owners access to funds through?.
Answer: policy loans, partial withdrawals, or outright surrenders
, ●● What laundering technique looks appealing to those who launder
because it avoids surrender charges?.
Answer: Free-look surrenders
●● Tom and Raul case study.
Answer: Tom wrote a $500,000 universal life insurance policy. wrote
large cash value policies not only on Raul but also on Raul's business
associates and personal friends. A common denominator with every case
was the buyer's interest in the policy's living benefits. There were
frequent withdrawals and partial surrenders, and several policies had
been canceled during the free-look period. Raul and his associates,
agents for an international drug cartel, were responsible for laundering
the millions of dollars generated annually from cocaine and heroin
buyers in the U.S. and Europe
●● Tom and Dru.
Answer: Raul made substantial donations to the cultural center, mostly
through wire transfers from off-shore bank accounts owned by obscurely
named business entities.There the funds were available to clients with
international connections.
●● The money laundering operation set up by Raul and his associates
followed the standard three-stage process characteristic of most money
laundering schemes..