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Once placed in the system
Layering distances the money
from its original source, often
by banks, it is undertaken to
disguise, through multiple
transfers and/or multiple
transactions and through
multiple banks and countries,
the money’s origin.
Integration then occurs where
the funds are used to purchase
‘clean, legitimate assets’ such as
businesses, luxury goods e.g.
yachts, aircraft etc or other money
assets or fixed assets (see
Diagram. Creating the illusion of
legitimate wealth