Cybercrimeology

New Fashioned Laundry: Cryptocurrency and the proceeds of crime

Episode Summary

Does Cryptocurrency change how we should understand money laundering ?Dr Christian Leuprecht, Caitlyn Jenkins and Rhianna Hamilton join us to discuss their recent paper “Virtual money laundering: policy implications of the proliferation in the illicit use of cryptocurrency" Vanessa Henri answers the question can lawyers say whatever they want?

Episode Notes

About our Guests:

Dr Christian Leuprecht 

https://www.queensu.ca/academia/leuprecht/

Caitlyn Jenkins 

https://www.queensu.ca/iigr/jenkins-caitlyn

Rhianna Hamilton

https://www.queensu.ca/iigr/hamilton-rhianna

Vanessa Henri

https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessahenri

 

Papers or resources mentioned in this episode:

Leuprecht, C., Jenkins, C. and Hamilton, R. (2022), "Virtual money laundering: policy implications of the proliferation in the illicit use of cryptocurrency", Journal of Financial Crime, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFC-07-2022-0161

Cullen Commission (2022) Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia

https://cullencommission.ca/com-rep/

Other:

Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog

https://www.fatf-gafi.org/home/