Abstract

KING, Katiuska  and  BELIKOW, Juan. Illicit Financial Flows, money laundering and politics. URVIO [online]. 2022, n.33, pp.8-18. ISSN 1390-4299.  https://doi.org/10.17141/urvio.33.2022.5442.

Money laundering is one of the components of illicit financial flows (IFFs) that have been defined in multilateral development agendas. While laundering is both well-known and recurrent in security issues, the financing issues of illicit activities are less analyzed, in part, because of the limited availability of information. This article analyzes laundering from an international political economy perspective. It considers three specific cases to distinguish the differences in the distribution of resources, not only financial. It is found that politics plays a fundamental role in its control and that there are visibly differentiated treatments between the global South and North.

Keywords : illicit financial flows; international political economy; money laundering; security.

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