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How Do Criminal Use Banks?

  • captured banks
  • corresponding bank accounts in larger banks
  • fictitious companies and fake invoices
  • proxies
  • smart criminals
  • fraud manuals
  • lack of due diligence KYC, KYCC

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How to investigate

  • treat banks as commercial companies
  • analyze ownership
  • expose crooked individuals, proxies and offshores
  • a starting point: aleph.occrp.org

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The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project��Paul Radu�paul@occrp.org�