A memorable money-laundering scheme plays out in 'Breaking Bad'
If you've ever seen the Emmy-winning drama"Breaking Bad," you're probably familiar with the concept of money laundering.
Lead character Walter White is a former chemistry teacher who gets into the illicit drug business. Eventually, he earns enough money to raise eyebrows, so he buys a local car wash to make it appear as though his income came from a legitimate business. It's not unusual for a car wash, like other service-based businesses, to handle a lot of cash. It becomes easy for Walt and his wife to blend the"dirty" money into the books by claiming they washed more cars than they really did.
For the sake of television, Walt's scheme is fairly simple. These systems are often much harder to follow, especially when they're traversing countries., named for Russia's largest private investment bank, Troika Dialog, allowed the flow of some $4.8 billion of funds from Russian companies and people into Europe and the US from 2003 to early 2013, reported Business Insider's Callum Burroughs.
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