Monel Laundering
Controlling Money Laundering in India – Problems and Perspectives
Vijay Kumar Singh
Assistant Professor of Law
Hidayatullah National Law University Raipur, Chhattisgarh
To be presented at the 11th Annual Conference on Money and Finance in the Indian Economy on 23-24 January 2009 At the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, INDIA
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Controlling Money Laundering in India – Problems and Perspectives
Vijay Kumar Singh
Assistant Professor of Law Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur vrsingh.hnlu@gmail.com
ABSTRACT ‘Money-Laundering’ – A sophisticated crime not to be taken very seriously at the first glance by anyone in the society as compared to street crimes. To give a head start to this paper, researcher wanted to limit the paper to National context, but was not able to do so as it was not at all possible due to the fact that any instance of money laundering would have a tinge of international flavour as money laundering typically involves transferring money through several countries in order to obscure its origin. It was difficult to discuss the topic of money-laundering nationally in abstract. If done so, would have appeared as a patchwork. To have a comprehensive paper, the researcher discusses the theme of the paper in three parts. Part I opens up with explaining the concepts and processes of money laundering pointing out the challenges and losses and is a kind of primer to money laundering. As observed earlier, money laundering essentially involves a foreign ground for washing – laundering the dirty money – proceeds of crime, Part II moves with elaborating the international developments and control mechanisms to deal with the problem of money laundering. In light of the aforesaid discussion Part III proceeds to analyze the position of India in controlling money laundering keeping up with the mandate of international forum. India is proposing to update its anti-money-laundering law
Vijay Kumar Singh
Assistant Professor of Law
Hidayatullah National Law University Raipur, Chhattisgarh
To be presented at the 11th Annual Conference on Money and Finance in the Indian Economy on 23-24 January 2009 At the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, INDIA
Do not cite without permission
Controlling Money Laundering in India – Problems and Perspectives
Vijay Kumar Singh
Assistant Professor of Law Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur vrsingh.hnlu@gmail.com
ABSTRACT ‘Money-Laundering’ – A sophisticated crime not to be taken very seriously at the first glance by anyone in the society as compared to street crimes. To give a head start to this paper, researcher wanted to limit the paper to National context, but was not able to do so as it was not at all possible due to the fact that any instance of money laundering would have a tinge of international flavour as money laundering typically involves transferring money through several countries in order to obscure its origin. It was difficult to discuss the topic of money-laundering nationally in abstract. If done so, would have appeared as a patchwork. To have a comprehensive paper, the researcher discusses the theme of the paper in three parts. Part I opens up with explaining the concepts and processes of money laundering pointing out the challenges and losses and is a kind of primer to money laundering. As observed earlier, money laundering essentially involves a foreign ground for washing – laundering the dirty money – proceeds of crime, Part II moves with elaborating the international developments and control mechanisms to deal with the problem of money laundering. In light of the aforesaid discussion Part III proceeds to analyze the position of India in controlling money laundering keeping up with the mandate of international forum. India is proposing to update its anti-money-laundering law