Money laundering and financial means of organised crime: Some preliminary empirical findings

Global Business and Economics Review

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 309-330

  Schneider, Friedrich S ^a  

^a JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Definition of money laundering; Financial means of organised crime; MIMIC estimation; Stages of money laundering; Volume of money laundering

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249143486     PISSN: 10974954     EISSN: 17451329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/GBER.2008.019986     Document Type: Article

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