CHAPTER 3

Money Laundering Detection Methods

Money laundering is a dynamic process. It involves a circulation of money or fund transfers in and out of a country to legalize the source of those funds. Some measures to decrease the circumvention of this form of illegal activity include:

    •  Deviations in trading volume and frequency,

    •  Unusual payments and receipts from an unusual trade partner, and

    •  Financial Fraud which is known as Benford’s Law, based on the numbers of times a specific digit occurs in a particular position in numbers to detect financial fraud (Yang and Wei, 2010).

Many applications and reporting regulations are published by anti- money laundering institutions for financial organizations or public to collaborate ...

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