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The nest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of
those that should carry them out.
Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children
Well, we’ve already seen that money can assume any form,
limited only by the imagination. We’ve examined the enor-
mous complexity of the world’s nancial system and can now
appreciate how easy it would be to make a few billion dollars
here and there disappear. Given these incredible parameters,
how are we ever going to be able to catalogue all of the various
money laundering schemes and operations?
We probably can’t. Not in this space, anyway. The best
we’re going to be able to do is describe ...