...Antonio Pellegrini Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the turnover of Italian shell companies (SCs)/missing traders used for tax crimes, a predicate offence of money laundering. This research could be useful for Italian obliged entities to the Anti-Money Laundering Law to detect...

... countries. Therefore, it becomes essential to investigate the complex networks to uncover the control structure and its implications. Together, the three key concepts – money laundering, shell companies and networks – create a triad of complex risks and threats to economic security. They should...

...Graham Stack Purpose – The paper aims to examine the role played by international shell companies in Latvian-type correspondent banking, who creates the shell companies according to what criteria and the resulting money laundering operations for financial flows from Russia and the former Soviet...

...Graham Stack Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a platform of interconnected international shell companies operated through Baltic banks, used for trade-based money laundering (TBML) across Russia, Ukraine and other post-Soviet states. Design/methodology/approach...