Unpacking the man behind the business

Fighting back: The local financial sector is implementing KYC to combat money laundering PIC: MOREMI SEJAKGOMO
Fighting back: The local financial sector is implementing KYC to combat money laundering PIC: MOREMI SEJAKGOMO

Business has become virtually important for money launderers or tax evaders. With money launderers or tax evaders now preferring to use cash-based companies as these companies prefer their customers to pay with cash for their goods and services.

Where there are high volumes of cash transactions in the business, money launderers are most likely to partner with those kinds of businesses to increase the regulator’s impossibilities of tracing the initial recipient of the dirty money.

Where there is partnership formed between the launderer and the cash-based company, the launderer deposits/invest its money into the company which then deposit all the money into its business accounts (dirty money mixed with clean money). Fake invoices and receipts will be created by the company to account for the cash (dirty money).

Editor's Comment
Micro-procurement maze demands urgent reform

Whilst celebrating milestones in inclusivity, with notably P5 billion awarded to vulnerable groups, the report sounds a 'siren' on a dangerous and growing trend: the ballooning use of micro-procurement. That this method, designed for small-scale, efficient purchases, now accounts for a staggering 25% (P8 billion) of total procurement value is not a sign of agility, but a 'red flag'. The PPRA’s warning is unequivocal and must be...

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