Download Money Laundering Layering Placement Integration Pictures. Each individual money laundering stage can be extremely complex due to the criminal activity involved. Placement is the first step of money laundering which is the process of moving the money into the legitimate source via financial institutions, casinos, financial instruments etc.
And using shell companies(inactive companies or corporations that essentially exist on paper only).
The final stage is where the money is returned to the criminal from what seem to be legitimate sources. There are many ways to launder money, from the simple to the very complex. The newest frontier of money laundering involves cryptocurrencies, such as bitcoin.while not totally anonymous, they are increasingly being used in blackmail schemes, the drug trade, and other criminal activities due to their relative anonymity compared with more conventional forms of curren. Layering conceals the source of the money through a series of transactions and bookkeeping tricks.