What are the Stages of Money Laundering?
        
        
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          Placement
        
        
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          illegal funds are introduced into the
        
        
          financial system
        
        
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          Layering
        
        
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          a series of financial transactions are
        
        
          carried out in order to camouflage the illegal source of
        
        
          the funds and to distance them from their source.
        
        
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          Integration
        
        
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          funds generated from these financial
        
        
          transactions are re-entered into the legitimate economy