Asian Money Laundering Organizations in Latin America and the United States

Asian money laundering organizations are one of the fastest-growing financial crime threats in the Western Hemisphere. Their networks are complex, leveraging mirror transactions, front companies and a variety of actors in multiple jurisdictions moving illicit proceeds for transnational criminal organizations based in Latin America.

In this webinar, Sayari’s director of training and investigations and Latin America specialist Bjorn Kjelstad discusses how publicly available information can be used to better understand and ultimately target these networks. Topics will include:

• Common typologies of Asian money laundering organizations operating in Latin America and the United States
• What recent judicial cases in the United States tell us about how these networks operate
• Public records investigation of a recently adjudicated U.S. federal case of an Asian money laundering network spanning Central America, Mexico, China, Hong Kong and the United States
• An examination of an Asian money laundering network headed by Xizhi Li demonstrates how public corporate records can serve as a key source of data to identify other potential actors and entities involved and to better assess how these different actors interact with each other