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When the word "money laundry" is mentioned, everyone automatically imagines a process, in which the funds, coming from illegal activities, are redeemed by various financial operations and become a part of legal economy. Only few persons really know that this concept is related to real laundering. Believe or not, money laundry has way more common with doing your laundry, as you would ever think. This "invention" has its origin in USA, beginning in the last century, when the alcohol had been prohibited by government, which leaded to the birth of several gangs and major boom of criminality. These companies started to conglomerate and purchase public wash-houses and car washes, as an excuse for their black gains. One of the most famous owners of dozens of them was no one, than notorious Al Capone. Activities connected to "dirty money" are miscellaneous. Besides the smuggling of alcohol and hazard, the source of today`s illegal earnings are, above all, drugs. This money comes from the street sale, but most of all, from the organized groups, that work internationally. "Dirty money" flows to the world`s economy also from the sales of guns, illegal immigration, laundering money, big thefts, smuggling art and historical goods, and finally from the car steals. Accumulating the mentioned money from financial frauds, bank and tax drifts, is now, part of this world. Anyway you do it, it is a crime. Not every is discovered at the very end. It all depends on you and your skills. This is not a walkthrough for opening a personal washing place in your basement. Just don't be silly, as Alexander Smith from Augusta, Georgia, who walked in the bank with a fake 1 million bill, trying to open an account. Let`s just say, even the fraud has its boundaries.

by Romana Schlesingerova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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