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Shell companies are dangerous because they are used both by criminal organizations to evade sanctions and launder money and by the rich to avoid taxes.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

North Korea’s Lazarus Group External link, among the most sophisticated crypto-enabled criminal organizations in the world, relied heavily on the DeFi mixer Tornado Cash to launder funds.

From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026

Sanctions also targeted entities the Treasury Department says help launder the proceeds of Iranian oil through a shadow banking network.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Investigators also identified a shell company possibly used to launder the advertising revenue, which totaled to around $6.2 million, and an investment of $200,000 in cryptocurrency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2025

I launder the napkins and tablecloths entirely at my own discretion.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control also designated three leaders and supporters of an Iran-aligned militia in Iraq, Kataib Hezbollah, as well as a business that it says moves and launders funds for the organization.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 22, 2024

“Today, Treasury is sanctioning Tornado Cash, a virtual currency mixer that launders the proceeds of cybercrimes, including those committed against victims in the United States,” Nelson said.

From The Verge ● Aug. 8, 2022

But the game launders this good idea into a bad one by making many enemies invulnerable unless your character has reached a certain level.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2020

Bethany launders them in-house and places them in a tub in the entryway, for workers to don each day after taking their temperature and passing a screening.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 3, 2020

Coming to the inferior officers and artificers, we have carpenters, smiths, goldsmiths, farriers, potters, ditchers, launders, armorers, fishermen, millers, bakers, salters, tailors, and barbers.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05 (From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

Operation Jackal IV - which took place between November 2025 and June 2026 - investigated how the groups laundered money and how financial fraud cyber crimes, such as cryptocurrency and email compromise fraud, were conducted.

From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026

When you’ve done that, you can start to feel the excitement of owning a freshly laundered $100 bill.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

He also represented Alex Saab, who American prosecutors said laundered money for Venezuela’s former strongman, Nicolás Maduro, and oversaw the importation of often-rotten food to a poverty-stricken country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

The whole letter is Bezos’ grievance talking, laundered through one of his fixers.

From Slate ● Feb. 5, 2026

Francis had given my clothes to Mrs. Hatch to be laundered; putting on a bathrobe he’d lent me, I went downstairs to sit on the porch for a few minutes before the others woke up.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt

Bessent did not rule out the possibility of Chinese banks being targeted, and vowed that any entity "that facilitates money laundering on behalf of Iran will be removed from the US dollar system".

From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026

Another 15,000 were given to HSI’s cross-border financial crimes unit, which was told to prioritize them over money laundering and fraud cases, a former high-level HSI official said.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026

The bill would also exempt so-called decentralized crypto networks from anti-money laundering and know-your-customer rules.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

After the ruling, Humala's lawyer Julio Espinoza Goyena wrote on social media that the court had decided the contributions his client received on electoral campaigns "do not constitute money laundering".

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

“I do laundering and mending. I’m even good with a hammer and nail.”

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool