LAVA JATO PUSHES MONEY LAUNDERERS TO ADOPT MORE SOPHISTICATED WAYS TO HIDE DIRTY CASH IN BRAZIL
March 24th, 2022
A senior lawyer in Brazil who has defended criminals accused of money laundering has told MLB how the Lava Jato cases which highlighted massive public corruption have pushed launderers towards using crypto-currency to hide dirty money.
But even though the Lava Jato task force was officially disbanded in 2021, Pierpaolo Bottini, partner at São Paulo-based Bottini & Tamasauskas Advogados, and a former director of the Economic Criminal Law of the Brazilian Institute of Criminal Sciences said this abuse of crypto has been highlighted by cases he is ...
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