A deep dive into a global money-laundering ecosystem powered by crypto and messaging apps like WeChat and Telegram, used by drug cartels and criminal groups
A vast ecosystem supported by the gig economy has sprung up to clean all that cash. — The pitch was simple: Crypto for “cold hard cash.”LinkedIn:Tamer Yalav,Poppy Alexander,CAT Labs,Scott Greytak, andNicola WhiteLinkedIn:Tamer Yalav:One major shift the article highlights is that money-laundering is no longer only done by large organized networks or professional firms — instead, a kind of informal freelance system has sprung up. …Poppy Alexander:This Jessica Brice deep dive into the actual mech