How does money laundering occur within specific sectors? What are the primary vulnerabilities? For example, within the education, sport, legal, real estate, financial sectors. What socio-economic factors, behaviours and motivations influence this?
Background
A better understanding of the different vulnerabilities would support policy development and
operational activity to be focused on the areas that pose the greatest risk. This would be valuable both at a strategic level and when considering activity within different sectors of the economy.
The ARIs in this question group focus on the areas where further information would be particularly valuable to build on our existing understanding of the vulnerabilities in the UK. The key question relevant across all crime types here would be what the key vulnerabilities are that can be exploited by criminals engaging in economic crime.
Next steps
Get in touch with NECC-IF-Research@nca.gov.uk EconomicCrimeResearch@homeoffice.gov.uk
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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Related UKRI funded projects
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Unsupervised Machine Learning Approach to the Detection of Money Laundering
An anti-money laundering software solution that uses unsupervised machine learning for anomaly detection and can detect money laundering transactions even at small payment thresholds....
Funded by: Innovate UK
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it focuses on detection of money laundering rather than specific sectors and vulnerabilities.
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The (Mis)Use of Corporate Vehicles by Transnational Organised Crime Groups in the Concealment, Conversion and Control of Illicit Finance
Transnational organised crime groups and the difficulties in intervening with illicit finances have been identified as a high-priority concern by the UK government (see Serious and Organised Crime Strategy (SOCS) (2013))...
Funded by: ESRC
Why might this be relevant?
Fully relevant as it specifically addresses the misuse of corporate vehicles by transnational organised crime groups in concealing illicit finance, which is related to money laundering within specific sectors.