Trafficking and money laundering : strategies used by criminal groups and terrorists and federal efforts to combat them : report to congressional committees.
Publication Info.
[Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2021.
Background. -- Traffickers consider multiple factors in determining their strategies according to federal agencies and others. -- Federal agencies and others identified money laundering strategies used by criminal groups and terrorists. -- Federal agencies and financial institution use several collaboration mechanisms in efforts to combat trafficking. -- Agency comments. -- Appendices.
Summary
FinCEN identified trafficking activity of transnational criminal organizations and terrorist groups as among the most significant illicit finance threats facing the United States in its 2021 Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism National Priorities. Among its objectives, this report describes what is known about the money laundering strategies of transnational criminal organizations and terrorists and information-sharing efforts among federal agencies to combat trafficking.
Note
Online resource; title from PDF cover page (GAO, viewed December 27, 2021).
