Offshore Financial Centers.

From: The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin | Date: February 1, 2001| Author: FERBRACHE, MARK D. | Copyright information

Advances in communications technology are making the world a smaller place to do business. A simple mouse click can transfer millions of dollars to the next hemisphere in an instant. As a result, no longer do international borders stand as barriers to criminals who engage in international fraud and money laundering. In fact, they use them to their advantage. To keep tenacious investigators at bay, fraudsters execute their scams in multiple foreign jurisdictions simply to exploit th...

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