What is the scale of money laundering, broken down into the different methods of transferring value and how they are used. (for example, through cash, gold or international value transfers)? How does this change over time?

Background

Many economic crimes are by their nature hidden, occur internationally and are typically
under-identified and under-reported. It is therefore challenging to accurately measure the
scale or prevalence of different types of economic crime.

It should be noted that in terms of measuring the scale of fraud, the landscape is more mature compared to other types of economic crime; for example, the CSEW regularly measures the scale and nature of fraud against individuals. The ARIs in this group focus on particular areas of the scale of the problem and measuring the threat on which further evidence would be helpful and extend our pre-existing evidence base

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Economic Crime Areas of Research Interest ARI report July 2025 1

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