Rinsed From Cartels to Crypto: How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World’s Deadliest Crooks - Geoff White

Written by Geoff White
Read by Geoff White
Format: M4B

There’s an old saying: ‘a rising tide lifts all boats’.

It’s normally couched in positive terms; that overall economic improvement will benefit everyone. In the case of high-tech money laundering, however, it offers a dark vision of the future. The better these launderers become at their work, the more crime of all types will be enabled. It’s time to understand where the water is rising, before it washes over us all.

Money laundering has been around for centuries. For as long as people have been stealing money, there’s been an industry ready to wash it. But recent tech innovations have created vastly complex new systems for laundering that threaten to overwhelm authorities, destabilise economies and disrupt societies.

Ranging from the flamboyant luxury of Dubai hotels to quiet coastal Ireland, from the UK to Nigeria and from Indonesia to North Korea, Rinsed is a truly global relevatory investigation into the new army of innovative launderers … and the consequences for all of us.