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Astounding, Essential, Shocking, Hilarious, April 13 2004
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This review is from: Crime School Money Laundering (Paperback)
Compelling, riveting and hilarious! An enlightening insight into shocking realities. Recommended for any (adult) reader. The book is a great read, immensely entertaining; and, crucially, it's a source of clarity on how the criminal world penetrates our daily lives in often subtle, potentially invisible, but highly damaging ways.It's a textbook on life for us all. For financial services professionals specifically, this book is a primary resource on the reality application of compliance, anti-money laundering and terrorist financing. It will, without doubt, help equip you in your aim to keep your professional reputation intact, and, further, help you to avoid becoming unwittingly involved at the more difficult end of a criminal prosecution. Personal bodyguards for compliance officers, "honey traps" on bankers, these and countless other lessons will be learned along with an improved understanding of criminal operations that could draw you in, naively, to a nightmare situation. As an added benefit for altruistically inclined readers, the insights provided by this book can assist in preventing the ruin of lives that can happen simply through ignorance. Read it, and you will be glad you did.
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Readable Book Straight From the Heart, April 22 2004
This review is from: Crime School Money Laundering (Paperback)
Excellent book. Breaks through the barriers of political correctness that Canadians too often suffer from. It provides an entertaining and informative straight from the heart read. I hope this is the first in series.
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The stunning reality of financial crime exposed!, April 14 2004
This review is from: Crime School Money Laundering (Paperback)
Mathers, an internationally recognized forensic expert, has really brought a useful book to the table for those interested in how exactly money laundering or big-money crime affects them. A former undercover RCMP officer, Mathers laundered money himself for many years; out of the trunks of cars, in the backrooms of seedy bars... and at banks and brokerage offices on Bay Street in Toronto, on Wall Street in New York, and, get this, in lawyer's offices, and sometimes in judge's chambers. By describing the problem, Mathers makes the connection for us between $100 million cocaine deals and why and how the drug dealer can be a client at the same bank as you. Bankers- please read the chapter on "Domestic Banking and Securities"; it is NOT the boring cont-ed you've read at industry conferences. It IS a highly readable and instructive description of what bankers *should* be doing, and how they can understand the purposes of the legislation they struggle with. Countless first hand descriptions and case studies of how he did the crimes as an operative for the RCMP, FBI, DEA etc.- and Mathers turns it into useable information for us. I recommend CRIME SCHOOL to financial professionals because it warrants their time: this book should be required reading. I do not recommend this book to natives of Dominican Republic or Quebec... But I do recommend the book to all others because it is hilarious, informative and telling. A great book! -MWContents:
*Intro by Norm Inkster, former Commissioner of the RCMP and Former President of Interpol
*Review by Jim Richards, Director of Global AML for Bank of America (and Fleet)
*Review by Reid Morden, former Director of Canadian Security Intelligence Service *What is Money Laundering?
*Organized Crime
*Getting Money into Banks
*Terrorists
*Domestic Banking and Securities
*Offshore Banking (includes Correspondent Banking, fei-chein, hawalla, black market peso)
*The "Pen" with the Lifetime Guarantee (the manual on how best to enjoy your prison term)
*Cops, Cash and Corruption
*Economic Subversion and the Gray Market Economy
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