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NFTs, crypto mixers and decentralised finance platforms enable money laundering through subjective valuations, transaction obscuring and regulatory gaps that traditional systems lack.
Criminals use mixers, DeFi protocols and NFT flipping to disguise stolen cryptocurrency as legitimate gains, but law enforcement increasingly tracks them through blockchain analysis and heuristic tagging.
Governments use blockchain analysis tools, exchange monitoring and legal enforcement to track crypto laundering, targeting wallets, mixers and off-ramps where criminals convert digital assets to cash.
Criminals convert illicit funds to crypto, use mixers and privacy coins to obscure the trail, then layer transactions through NFTs and decentralised finance platforms before cashing out as clean money.
Criminals use crypto mixers, NFTs, decentralised finance platforms and privacy coins to hide the origin of stolen or illicit money, exploiting gaps in global regulation and enforcement.
Teodorin Obiang used shell companies, luxury real estate, art, yachts and cars to launder tens of millions in stolen state wealth, with help from banks and lawyers across multiple countries.
How Equatorial Guinea's Vice President stole state funds through inflated contracts, laundered money via offshore shell companies, and spent it on mansions, yachts and art before authorities seized his assets.
Money laundering converts illicit wealth into seemingly legitimate assets through placement, layering and integration stages, using shell companies, offshore accounts and luxury purchases.
Corrupt leaders use shell companies, offshore accounts, luxury assets, intermediaries, trade manipulation, fake loans and weak-regulation jurisdictions to conceal embezzled national wealth internationally.
