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This is the night Mail, crossing the Border
Bringing the cheque and the postal order.
W. H. Auden, British poet (from an ad for the British
postal service)
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for
travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey
In the world of modern money laundering, Stevenson’s roman-
tic view of travel has been somewhat superseded. The money
getting laundered in today’s global economy can denitely take
some long and roundabout trips, but not just for travel’s sake.
Money laundering has gone international in a major way.
Capital ight, money from criminal enter ...