Unseen Money 13—Washing the proceeds in cyberspace
Long gone are the days when the Escobar family had to spend $2,500 a month on rubber bands to hold the cash they earned trading cocaine. Now, the invention of cryptocurrency has made money launderers’ life a whole lot easier—or has it? Investigative journalist Geoff White joins Paul Amery and Timur Yunusov in the latest episode of Unseen Money to discuss: Why a New York crypto money laundering case is attracting such close attention How technology has changed the business of crime Cryptocurrency mixers and decentralised finance North Korea and the Axie Infinity hack The ugly mix of organised crime, state sponsorship and espionage Sanctions regimes, cryptocurrency stablecoins and dollar hegemony Hackers, social media and money laundering Who will run the world’s digital money?