Journal of Money Laundering Control: Volume 14 Issue 3

Money laundering laws and principles of Shari'ah: dancing to the same beat?

Siti Faridah Abdul Jabbar

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the criminalisation of money laundering, corporate criminal liability for money laundering, equitable liability of professional…

Regulating Hawala: a comparison of five national approaches

Jonas Rusten Wang

The aim of this paper is to compare the regulatory frameworks for informal remittance systems in the UK, Germany, The Netherlands, Sweden and Norway.

Was the recent global financial crisis symptomatic from the challenges of liberalisation of financial markets in Uganda?

Norman Mugarura

The recent global financial crisis has demonstrated the susceptibility of local economies to the global market system and its idiosyncrasies. While liberalisation of financial…

Mapping “infected” real estate property

Luuk Ritzen

In 2009, the research team of Unger and Nelen was requested to study the scale of entwinement between money laundering activities and the Dutch real estate sector. For this, the…

Enforcement of prudential standards in Turkish banking law

Nusret Cetin

The success of banking regulations depends on their effective and efficient enforcement. Therefore, the penalties or sanctions for failures to comply with prudential regulatory…

Plata o plomo: penetration, the purchase of power and the Mexican drug cartels

Jeffrey Simser

The paper aims to explore the penetration of power in Mexico by drug cartels and the attendant policy challenges to address the problem.

Anti‐money laundering law of Turkey and the EU: an example of convergence?

Umut Türkşen, İsmail Ufuk Mısırlıoğlu, Osman Yükseltürk

This paper critiques the recent anti‐money laundering (AML) legislation in Turkey and the European Union (EU) in order to determine whether there is convergence between them…

Pure prejudice and purification 18 April 2011

Barry A.K. Rider