Virtual economies and financial crime: Money laundering in cyberspace

Virtual Economies and Financial Crime: Money Laundering in Cyberspace

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Chambers Jones, Clare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4337/9781849809337     Document Type: Book

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