Clean on Paper

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A guided path from zero to fluent: read in order, roughly 90 minutes end to end. No accounts, no tracking, just links.

  1. Step 1

    What money laundering is

    Start with the problem: why criminal money is useless until it has a clean story, and who does the cleaning.

  2. Step 2

    The three stages

    The FATF's placement → layering → integration model: the vocabulary every case and every regulation uses.

  3. Step 3

    Five foundational techniques

    Between them, these five cover cash, companies, trade, and crypto. Everything else is a variation on these moves.

  4. Step 4

    Two cases, end to end

    One banking scandal, one casino economy. Watch the techniques combine in the wild.

  5. Step 5

    How detection works

    KYC, reports, monitoring, and financial intelligence units, and why the system still loses most of the time.

  6. Step 6

    Test yourself

    Ten scenarios. Spot the red flag before the compliance analyst does.