<ul><li>European bank shares saw some of their biggest losses in years on Monday, after the publication of a bombshell report showing a number of big names in the region had handled up to $2 trillion in dirty money. </li><li>Shares in <keyword id="6357341" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="deutsche-bank">Deutsche Bank</keyword>, Germany's largest, fell more than 8%, and UK-Hong Kong-listed <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/hsbc-stock?utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingestgest">HSBC</a> fell to a near 25-year low. </li><li>But analysts told Business Insider the report was only a small contributor to the sell-off.</li><li>Other reasons include: expectations of no further stimulus, speculation of negative interest rates, rising COVID-19 cases and underperformance of European banks. </li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>Shares in some of Europe's biggest banks have given up almost the gains achieved since the depths of the coronavirus crisis in March this week, with the likes of <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/hsbc-stock?utm_source=markets&amp;utm_medium=ingest\est\">HSBC</a> plummeting to its lowest level in almost 25 years on Monday, after thousands of leaked documents showed several major institutions handled trillions in dirty money over decades.The documents were part of a collection of files belonging to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and were published on Sunday by<a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/fincen-files-financial-scandal-criminal-networks"> BuzzFeed News</a> and <a href="https://www.icij.org/investigations/fincen-files/global-banks-defy-u-s-crackdowns-by-serving-oligarchs-criminals-and-terrorists/">the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.</a>The so-called "<keyword id="9971401" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fincen-files">FinCEN files</keyword>" showed a number of large banks, including HSBC, Deutsche Bank, <keyword id="6386585" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Barclays">Barclays</keyword>, <keyword id="6356454" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Standard-Chartered">Standard Chartered</keyword> and US rivals, such as JPMorgan, helped move up to $2 trillion in suspicious funds over twenty years. The EuroStoxx 600 Banking Index closed more than 4% lower on Monday, one of its largest one-day falls in months. The index was last up 1.4% on the day, as banking shares staged a minor recovery.HSBC's stock price fell 5% to a near 25-year low in Hong Kong on Monday. It was last up around 1.7% in afternoon trading in London, but still near its lowest since March this year. The likes of <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/db-stock">Deutsche Bank</a> lost 9% on Monday, recovering by around 1.7% on Tuesday, while <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/stocks/barclays-stock">Barclays</a> was up nearly 2%, following Monday's 5.4% drop. The European banking index has lost more than 40% in value so far this year. And analysts told Business Insider the leaked files were only a small part of this week's sell-off. Here are the other factors that played part: <h2>Negative Interest Rates </h2>Speculation of negative interest rates, a mechanism usually deployed as a last resort by central banks, played a part. Naeem Aslam, chief market analyst at Avatrade, said: "If we have a no deal Brexit, negative interest rates may come into play."Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said Tuesday that the UK was merely preparing for negative rates, but unlikely to employ them in the near term. But <keyword id="31671" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="markets">markets</keyword> have still been rattled according to analysts, especially since the BoE brought them back into consideration last week. The European Central Bank introduced negative rates in 2014 when it lowered its deposit rate to -0.1%. Michael Hewson, chief market analyst at CMC Markets, said: "You've got ECB looking towards trying to provide more easing later in the year and you got the Bank of England talking at least about negative rates."Read More:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/investing-strategy-top-ideas-from-ex-goldman-trader-tony-greer-2020-9"> Tony Greer made 5 times his money with an early investment in Apple. The macro investor and ex-Goldman Sachs trader provides an inside look into his trading tactics and shares his top 3 ideas right now.</a> Negative interest rates often harm banks' profitability and put pressure on their margins. <h2>No more stimulus </h2>Hewson said bank stocks had also weakened because of a lack of signs of further stimulus from central banks. The Federal Reserve last week said it would keep interest rates on hold until at least 2023, but gave no indication that any stimulus measures will be forthcoming. Democrats and Republicans have been in a stalemate since July, over the size of a next fiscal stimulus plan. Hewson said: "Banks are in a difficult situation simply because of the fact that they're on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic."The European Central Bank and the Bank of England made no major changes to their respective bond-buying programs and neither did the Bank of Japan at its most recent policy meeting.<h2>Rising COVID-19 Cases </h2>Hewson said the <keyword id="9982346" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="fincen-papers">FinCEN papers</keyword> were only "one third of the reason for the sell-off." "Concerns about new lockdown restrictions on economic growth and unemployment [that may crimp] banks ability to make profits in the next 12 months," were also behind the decline, he added. Governments across Europe are facing a resurgence of COVID-19 cases prompting jitters among investors, with the UK, Spain and France among the worst affected so far. British prime minister Boris Johnson announced new restrictions to stem the spread of the virus on Tuesday that will stay in place for up to six months. France and Spain have seen cases in counts of up to 10,000 per day as a second wave of infections engulfs the region.Read More:<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/investing-advice-3-portfolio-moves-to-lower-duration-risk-ms-2020-9"> Morgan Stanley wealth management's head of market research told us a risk to longer-term assets that investors are most overlooking as the economy recovers — and recommends 3 portfolio shifts for sustained gains</a>Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at I<a href="https://www.ig.com/">G</a>, said the papers may make people "cautious" about buying bank stocks as there could be more "stories coming out of the woodwork."But Aslam said he bought HSBC shares himself on Monday after the sell-off and there could be buying interest in buying European bank stocks which have underperformed in recent months. Beauchamp said HSBC's sell-off was more driven on reports by Chinese state media on Monday that the lender may be included on a list of companies that may face restrictions on doing business in China, than by its name featuring in the <keyword id="1511177" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="FinCEN">FinCEN</keyword> files.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>The <keyword id="105472" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="US-Treasury">US Treasury</keyword>'s crime bureau, <keyword id="1511177" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="FinCEN">FinCEN</keyword>, hired its first chief digital currency advisor. </li><li>Michele Korver, who was in the Digital Currency Council for the Department of Justice, has got the job.</li><li>The focus of the role will be on preventing a boom in illicit activities in the digital space. </li></ul>The US government arm for tackling financial crimes has hired its first cryptocurrency chief, as it takes aim at illicit activity that has involved digital assets. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) said on Tuesday it had hired Michele Korver as its first chief digital currency advisor.FinCEN's role is to clamp down on financial crimes like <keyword id="6355008" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Money-laundering">money laundering</keyword>, and Korver will focus on fulfilling this mission in the digital space."Michele brings a wealth of digital currency expertise, and will be a tremendous leader in co-ordinated efforts to maximize FinCEN's contribution to the innovative potential for financial expansion of opportunity, while minimizing illicit finance risk," FinCEN acting director Michael Mosier said in a <a href="https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-welcomes-first-ever-chief-digital-currency-advisor-and-first-director">statement</a> announcing the hire. Regulators have cited the <a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/currencies/news/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-uk-money-laundering-regulation-fca-crime-2021-6">use of cryptocurrencies in money laundering</a> as one factor in considering whether to introduce tougher rules for the industry.The US was home to more crypto-related criminal activity in 2020 than anywhere else, <a href="https://go.chainalysis.com/rs/503-FAP-074/images/Chainalysis-Crypto-Crime-2021.pdf">Chainalysis</a> said in a February report that covered ransomware and money laundering, among other areas. According to the crypto research firm, most cryptocurrency linked to illicit addresses in the US came from scams. Korver is no stranger to crimes in the digital space as she served in the Digital Currency Council for the Department of Justice for three years up until this month. In her role there, she advised government attorneys, federal agents and other bureaus nationwide on digital currencies as well as developed policy on cryptocurrency seizures.At the DOJ, Korver wrote or contributed to three papers on digital currency, including one on enforcement . In a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao/page/file/1403671/download">paper earlier this year,</a> she wrote about how <keyword id="2420795" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="cryptocurrencies">cryptocurrencies</keyword> are a unique money-laundering tool because they are decentralized and can keep identities hidden. Money laundering in the crypto space typically involves criminals sending illicit proceeds to exchanges that are regarded as being risky, or less reputable than well-established ones. There, the funds end up in deposit addresses that are usually controlled by cyber criminals, according to Chainalysis.

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/5a697c3200d0ef1e008b4783-2000/appleby.jpg" alt="appleby paradise papers" data-mce-source="Matt Cardy/Getty Images" data-mce-caption="The offices of Bermuda-based law firm Appleby are pictured on November 8, 2017 in Douglas, Isle of Man. The Isle of Man is a low-tax British Crown Dependency with a population of just 85 thousand in the Irish Sea off the west coast England. Recent revelations in the Paradise Papers have linked the island to tax loopholes being used by Apple and Nike, as well as celebrities such as Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton." />Matt Cardy/Getty ImagesThe offices of Bermuda-based <keyword id="6355470" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Law">law</keyword> firm Appleby are pictured on November 8, 2017 in Douglas, Isle of Man.</div></div></div><ul><li>Appleby, the firm at the center of last year's massive Paradise Papers leak, allegedly provided services to a bank accused of facilitating global terror and crime, according to a Guardian report.</li><li>Appleby had represented the Federal Bank of the Middle East (FBME) since 2004, the report said.</li><li>FBME was described as "a financial institution of primary money laundering concern" according to US federal court documents filed in October 2017.</li><li>The bank denies the allegations.</li></ul><hr /> Appleby, the firm at the center of last year's massive Paradise Papers leak allegedly provided services to a bank accused of facilitating global terror and crime, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jan/23/paradise-papers-appleby-worked-for-fbme-bank-linked-to-terrorist-finance-organised-crime">the Guardian reported</a> on Tuesday.Appleby had allegedly represented the international Federal Bank of the Middle East (FBME) since 2004, according to the report.The US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) leveled several <a href="https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/digital_assets/a3459748-e320-49cd-bee4-56e73f2d67b8/Judgement-(24-10-17).pdf">major allegations</a> against FBME, calling it a "primary money laundering concern," according to US federal court documents filed in October 2017.A 2014 note <a href="https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/special_measure/FBME_NOF.pdf">published by FinCEN in the US Federal Register</a> went further in its description of FBME's alleged activities:"FBME is used by its customers to facilitate money laundering, terrorist financing, transnational organised crime, fraud, sanctions evasion and other illicit activity internationally and through the US financial system," the note said.Additionally, <a href="https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/special_measure/FBME_NOF.pdf">the 2014 note</a> alleged that at least one of FBME's customers was a front-company for the group, Scientific Studies and Research Center, an entity that was <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-sanctions/u-s-sanctions-hundreds-of-employees-of-syrian-research-center-idUSKBN17Q1VB">sanctioned</a> by the US and was determined to be a "proliferator of weapons of mass destruction," according to the note.FBME has vehemently <a href="http://www.fbmeltd.com/notice-to-fbme-clients-and-the-public/">denied</a> the allegations. A spokesperson for the institution said: "The outrageous claims that FBME acted for terrorists, or knowingly acted for any sanctioned individuals, are false and deliberately damaging.""Any client that was sanctioned had their accounts frozen immediately and were reported to the regulator," the bank said.Appleby ended its relationship with FBME in 2015, <a href="https://globalinvestigationsreview.com/digital_assets/a3459748-e320-49cd-bee4-56e73f2d67b8/Judgement-(24-10-17).pdf">according to federal court documents</a>. <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/uk-china-countries-drive-left-side-road-traffic-ancient-rome-sword-fight-2016-12">The surprising reason some countries drive on the left side of the road</a></h3> <div> <iframe class="bijwplayerclass" data-player="jwplayer" src="https://content.jwplatform.com/players/J0ULawxH-CEZHWCBG.html" width="100%" height="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="auto" style="margin:0px;" allowfullscreen=""></iframe><script>function receiveMessage(event){ console.log(event.data.fullscreen); Android.fullscreen(event.data.fullscreen); }window.addEventListener("message", receiveMessage, false);</script> </div> </div>

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Retired <keyword id="6355946" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="fbi">FBI</keyword> agent <a href="https://jerriwilliams.com/">Jerri Williams</a> looks at eight money-laundering scams in <keyword id="406" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Movies">movies</keyword> and TV shows.</li><li>She breaks down "Ozark" S1E4 (2017), "The Wolf of Wall Street" (2013), and "<keyword id="3050190" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Narcos">Narcos</keyword>" (2015-2017).</li><li>Williams is the author of "<a href="https://jerriwilliams.com/books/fbi-myths-and-misconceptions-a-manual-for-armchair-detectives">FBI Myths and Misconceptions: A Manual for Armchair Detectives</a>."</li></ul>Below is a transcript of the <keyword id="21654" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="video">video</keyword>. - There is more <keyword id="6354840" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="money">money</keyword> here than we could spend in 10 lifetimes. I certainly can't launder it.Jerri: That's pretty realistic too. You're going to have to have a lot of small businesses to run through millions of dollars.Hi, I'm Jerri Williams, and I was a special agent with the FBI for 26 years. I investigated economic crime, financial fraud. I'm also the author of "FBI Myths and Misconceptions: A Manual for Armchair Detectives." Today we're going to look at money-laundering clips in movies and judge how realistic they are."Ozark" S1E4 (2017)Marty: Money-laundering 101. Say you come across a suitcase with 5 million bucks in it. What would you buy? A yacht? A mansion? A sports car?Jerri: Now, his money-laundering 101 is a little right, but he has some things that are wrong.Marty: The IRS won't let you buy anything of value with it.Jerri: The IRS will let you spend as much money as you have, but they want to know where you got it from. And they also want to make sure that they get their cut. So, if a criminal or a bad guy goes in and wants to lay down a million dollars for a home, that is going to be reported to the IRS. I think it's called Form 8300. And if they're suspicious about the activity, it's also going to be reported to FinCEN.Marty: You gotta age it up. Crumple it, drag it through the dirt.Jerri: You don't need to run it through a wash machine. But I guess if a criminal has some illegal source of money and it's coming in brand-new, crisp bills and he's trying to pretend that it's part of his normal revenue from a business, I guess he would want to make it look like it has been handled, but I've never heard of that before.Marty: Next, you need a cash business.Jerri: This clip is very realistic. Strip clubs and casinos, restaurants and bars, any type of business where cash is being used and transacted are just the perfect kind of businesses to do <keyword id="6355008" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Money-laundering">money laundering</keyword>.Marty: That mixture goes from an American bank to a bank from any country that doesn't have to listen to the IRS. It then goes into a standard checking account, and violà. All you need is access to one of over 3 million terminals. Because your work is done.Jerri: Well, your work is done once the money is in the banking system. It doesn't need to be sent anywhere else. It's now, you know, clean, legitimate money.The only thing that he doesn't talk about is the fact that when you deposit that money, if it's over $10,000, you have to fill out what is called a CTR, or a currency transaction report. And this is required of any bank. And, of course, on that form, you have to indicate where the money came from.I would give this clip about a 7 out of 10. I think they got a lot of it right about the general, basic part of money laundering.Rating: 7/10"Narcos" (2015-2017)Steve: And Gacha had the most successful emerald mine of all time. He would inject bad stones with oil to make them shiny and have his friends in Miami buy the emeralds with drug money and give them as gifts to hookers in town.Jerri: And this is another example of money laundering. If no one is looking to put a value on those gems or diamonds or whatever that you're exchanging for cash to legitimize your illegal funds, then, you know, on paper it appears that a legal transaction has occurred.Steve: And that's what they did.Jerri: This is very realistic, and it's based on the truth. Drug dealers in South America did get to a point where they had so much money that they buried it. Rumor is that that money is still buried someplace, and people are constantly searching to find it.Steve: They hid it in caletas, hiding places in walls and ceilings.Jerri: I was involved in a search once. All of the cash was hidden in the floorboard of the van. It was pretty exciting to come across thousands and thousands of dollars, although tedious to have to count.I would give this clip a 10 out of 10. It's pretty authentic. There's been nobody that I'm aware of that has hidden as much cash as Escobar has, and he's legendary.Rating: 10/10"<keyword id="603866" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Breaking-Bad">Breaking Bad</keyword>" S5E8 (2012)I didn't know what else to do. I tried weighing it. I figured one bill of any denomination weighs a gram. There are 454 grams to a pound.Jerri: Money is handled on a regular basis, especially in drug dealing, and so all of that is going to make each particular bill weigh differently than it did when it was a nice, crisp, clean, fresh bill. So there's really no way of determining how much money is there just by weighing it.I just stack it up, keep it dry, spray it for silverfish. Most of the time the money is just stored in a bag.Jerri: I have heard so many times about drug dealers or criminals who have gathered money together and stored it in a place only to come back later to find out that it's water-damaged, that it's rotting away, that it's been eaten by animals or insects.There is more money here than we could spend in 10 lifetimes. I certainly can't launder it, not with 100 car washes.Jerri: That's pretty realistic too. You're going to have to have a lot of small businesses to run through millions of dollars. I think I'd give it a 10 out of 10. I think it's pretty realistic, the issue of having too much money to spend and the way it's being stored.Rating: 10/10"Scarface" (1983)Where does this check go? Montana Realty Company.Jerri: This is the point where the money laundering occurs. It turns into money laundering running it through a realty company. And so this is a pretty authentic part of the scene. I have heard of many businesses that have been used as fronts for criminal activity, and it's kind of sweet and funny that many of them use the names of their spouses, their wives, or their children. It's kind of sweet until the federal government comes in and confiscates.All right, freeze! Get 'em up! Get your hands up!Officer: Put your hands against the wall, turn around.Jerri: Let your undercover agent or your informant get out of the scene before you come and make an arrest. There is no rush. You know the money's there, you know the transaction's been made, you have the camera, the video of everything.Officer: Put 'em up against the wall. You're under arrest for violation of the RICO statute.Jerri: So, he mentions RICO here. RICO is the Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization Act, and it is used when you are investigating a large organization. You see that eye there on the clock?Say, "Hi, honey."Jerri: I think they could have done a better job [laughs] of disguising it. I would wonder if there was a camera being poked out of this clock. Most of the time I have hidden audio equipment on the cooperating witness or the undercover agent's person. You know, a beeper or in a cellphone or in a book. Many times lamps are used just because they're at the right height and they're very effective tools for hidden cameras. I would rate it about a 7 or 8. I think it's pretty realistic when it comes to the exchange of funds. You know, I have problems with the fact that they're sitting there counting the money, you know, for hours on end.Rating: 8/10"The Wolf of Wall Street" (2013)Let me ask you something. What about her family, right?Jerri: How would anybody think they're gonna get through the security system at most airports with money like that strapped all over their body? Before we became much more security-conscious here in the United States, anyway, the TSA, you know, I would still think would've caught that. Nowadays you're going to have to go through a body scanner as well as all your carry-on luggage.I mean, they all got Swiss passports, right?Jerri: The woman and her family are what we would call money mules. People that are being paid to transfer illegal sums. A money mule can also be paid just to open up bank accounts and then make those deposits and transfers in their own name on behalf of the criminal. It's very common that a criminal will ask a family member or a friend to do this, but they can also just pay a stranger.I mean, she's got parents, she's got a brother, right? Brother's got a wife, that's five f---ing people. Six, seven trips, boom.Jerri: One of the things that really bothers me about this scene is that I know this particular case that this movie is made about, and it was an investment fraud. The money was already in the banking system. So I'm not even sure where all this cash came from. It was not a cash business. I hope this is a scene that is set for comedy, because it's pure comedy. There are parts of the whole movie that are pretty good. I mean, it is based on a real case, but these scenes, not good at all. I would rate it as low as a 1 or a 2.Rating: 2/10"The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" (2011)Immigration official: I can confirm that he left Sweden on a private jet that landed in Paris last week.Jerri: Transferring funds from an account that she doesn't own into her own account. This is what people think about when they think about money laundering. But, in fact, it's not money laundering. It's identity fraud, it's wire fraud, it's embezzlement.I have a number of accounts at Bank of Kroenfeld, Cayman Islands. I'd like to transfer those accounts and convert them to bonds.Naturally, you have the clearing codes.Naturally.How many accounts will you be transferring?30.Jerri: Because of digital fingerprinting and facial recognition, I think it's becoming harder and harder to do identity fraud through disguises. So, you know, she's getting away with this, but the documentation, her passport, and other types of identification must be able to be verified.Reporter: Where fugitive financier Hans-Erik Wennerstrom is: here in this Caribbean island's --Jerri: Now it's money laundering, because she has taken funds and she has disguised and concealed them. She's taken money that was in the banking system and she's transferred those funds and converted them into bonds.How many of these would you like to convert for deposit?All 50 into five accounts.Jerri: These counterfeit bonds, I assume they're counterfeit, to a Swiss banker. And so they're going to have to have the appropriate weight and the appropriate stamps and the appropriate official markings that these types of bonds would normally have. And it's a criminal act of the banker if they do not verify the identity of the person. Or if they believe that those funds were part of a criminal activity, the banker would not accept those funds in the bank, because doing so would also be a criminal act. The things that you hear about Swiss bank secrecy has to do with once those funds have been legitimately deposited. But banking in Switzerland still works just like any other bank around the world. They still want to know who you are. I think that I would give it probably a 10 out of 10.Rating: 10/10"American Made" (2017)You know the drill, everybody gets a burn bag. Into it you put anything with Barry Seal's face or name on it.Barry: Come on, boys, we gotta move.Jerri: I can tell you watching this just makes me so happy. There are some agents in the FBI who would rather poke their eyes out with a stick than to have to go through documents and papers. Of course, now a lot of this stuff is going to be online. This still goes on, but it's a lot easier, I would imagine, to destroy evidence that's online than it is, you know, boxes and boxes of paper like this.Agent: Seal! DEA! Back away from the truck with your hands in the air.Jerri: I have been in many situations, especially during searches, where we come in and identify ourselves and immediately have to tell people to stop.Agent: ATF! Drop your weapons!Whoa, whoa, whoa, DEA!ATF! Put your guns down! It's cool! Everybody's friends here!Jerri: Now, this particular case happened before the late 1980s. Maybe something like this could happen, but it doesn't happen anymore. Not since they created what is called HIDTA so that they can deconflict or prevent all of those agencies coming up on the same type of case together. You don't want to have any law-enforcement agency or law-enforcement officer or agent harmed because of friendly fire. So I would rate this movie clip about a 5. The last half, when we had all of these law-enforcement agencies converging at the same time, no, that's not very realistic.Rating: 5/10"Mickey Blue Eyes" (1999)A last-minute addition to your catalog. Lot No. 277 A, oil on canvas, signed by the artist. "The Road to Damascus" by Jonathan Graziosi.Jerri: This part of the clip is pretty funny. Art is in the eyes of the beholder, and it's harder for authorities to be able to determine what is the value of art. And unlike other businesses, the art dealer does not have to complete that CTR, like we talked about, to let the IRS know that this transaction has been made.50,000, anyone? No? Oh, well, too bad then.Jerri: Money laundering doesn't usually occur at an auction like this. Each art in an auction would have the provenance, where you know exactly who is the artist, how much this work of art has sold for before. It has a trail of how much it's worth, how much it's been valued in the past.We have $50,000.Jerri: When you have a single purchaser, then that again is when the radar goes off, that this might be a suspicious activity here.Quite a painting you have for yourself, sir. Thank you.Jerri: Somebody at that level should be suspicions that a painting of that quality would sell for this amount.Now he's part of the conspiracy, and so if I were able to give him any advice, I'd tell him this is the point where he needs to come clean to the FBI. I would rate this scene about a 7 or an 8. I think they got a lot of the things right about using art in a money-laundering scheme.Rating: 7/10

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