Narco-Money Laundering - March 18, 2025

The United Nations estimates that illegal activity generates more than a trillion dollars in profits each year worldwide. That money has to be cleaned to be useful. This class teaches investigators how to identify money laundering activity, so that accounts and assets may be seized and perpetrators may be prosecuted. This is NOT a class on white collar crime – the class focuses on narcotics offenses, organized crime, and street crimes encountered everyday by officers across the country.

Overview of Topics:

• Identifying Money Laundering (Forget about the Bankers Boxes and Spreadsheets)
• Domestic & International Transactions
• Money Laundering Stings
• Structuring & Smurfing
• Bulk Cash Smuggling & Unlicensed Money Transmitters
• The Bank Secrecy Act & Transaction Reporting Requirements
• How to get FinCEN and Banks to do Your Work for You
• Buidling Cases Against Targets that don't even Know that they're Laundering Money

Host or Publisher J.P. Nixon