Skip to main content

Featured Post

Reliance Jio IPO: India's Biggest IPO Coming Soon? Valuation, ARPU, and Latest News

  New Delhi : Financial specialists are profoundly excited almost the Dependence Jio IPO and are anticipating it with awesome expectation. After two decades, Dependence Businesses is set to dispatch an IPO for one of its major commerce units. Presently, Mukesh Ambani has given a critical upgrade with respect to this Jio IPO . The draft outline for Jio Stages is anticipated to be recorded following month. This may possibly be the biggest IPO in the country's history. Dependence has designated a consortium of 19 banks to oversee this process.   Mukesh Ambani, Chairman of Dependence Businesses, has dropped a major indicate with respect to the exceedingly expected IPO of Jio Stages. Depicting it as a "definitive breakthrough," Ambani signaled that the company is quickly progressing in its arrangements for what is balanced to be India's largest-ever IPO. Talking amid the company's profit discharge, Ambani expressed, "I am satisfied to share that we are making...

What is "Money Laundering" and how do fraudsters do it?

What is money laundering and how do fraudsters do it?

 


The word 'money laundering' has created a tremendous political furore in India. In India, money laundering is popularly known as hawala transaction. It was most popular in India during the 1990s when the names of many politicians came out in it.

 

Money laundering refers to the conversion of black money earned illegally into money earned in a legitimate way. Money laundering is a way to hide money illegally earned. Through money laundering, money is invested in such activities or investments that even the investigating agencies are unable to locate the main source of the money. A person who makes money in this way is called a launderer. In money laundering, black money earned through illegal means comes back to its rightful owner in the form of valid currency.

 

The process of laundering money involves three stages.

 

1. Placement

Under this first phase is the arrival of cash in the market. In this, the launderer deposits the money illegally earned in financial institutions such as banks or other types of formal or informal financial institutions.

 

2. Layering

Layering the second stage in money laundering is related to hiding money. In this, the launderer hides his real income by making a mess in the book of accounting and making other suspicious transactions. The launderer deposits the funds in investment instruments such as bonds, stocks, and traveller's checks or in his bank accounts abroad. This account is often opened in banks of countries which do not have strict law of money laundering.

 

3. Integration

This is the last step of the money laundering process. Through this process, the money sent out or spent in the country comes back to the launderer in the form of money. Such money often comes back through investing in a company, buying real estate, buying luxury goods etc.

 

There can be many ways to do money laundering, one of which is the most important to create a fake company which are also called shell companies. Shell companies are a company like a real company but do not actually have any assets nor do they have any real-time production work or any kind of business. In fact, these shell companies exist only on paper and do not exist in the real world. The launderer shows large transactions in the balance sheets of these companies. He takes a loan in the name of the company, takes tax exemption from the government, does not fill the income tax returns and through all these fake works he collects a lot of black money. If a third party wants to examine the financial records, then the third party is shown false and fabricated documents to confuse the investigation as to the source and location of the funds.

 

Other methods of money laundering include buying a big house, shop or mall but showing its priceless on paper when the actual market price of that purchased property is much higher, this is done so that you have to reduce it. Thus black money is also raised through tax evasion. In another way, money laundering is done when the launderer deposits his money in banks of many countries where the government of any other country does not have the right to check his account. The biggest example of this is the Swiss Bank of Switzerland, where a large number of Indians have black money deposited by money laundering.

 

The Money Laundering Act in India was enacted in 2002, but it has been amended 3 times in 2005, 2009 and 2012. The last amendment of 2012 was approved by the President on January 3, 2013, and this law has come into force from February 15, 2013. The PMLA (Amendment) Act, 2012 has included concealment of funds, acquisition possession and use of funds in criminal activities etc. in the list of crimes. The Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002 (PMLA Act), 2002 brought the RBI, SEBI and Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) under the PMLA Act and hence the provisions of this Act are applicable to all financial institutions, all private and public banks, mutual Applies to funds, insurance companies and their financial intermediaries.


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Know All About Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme (SGB)

    The first time Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme was first introduced by the Government of India in the Union Budget of 2015-16. It was introduced by the Government of India to reduce the demand for the physical gold form and a part of this physical gold is bought every year in the form of gold bands for the purpose of invest in SGB.   Latest on Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme    A tenth tranche of the buy SGB Series – The Sovereign Gold Bond Scheme 2021-22 - Series X in which the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) sell gold bonds linked to the market price of gold on behalf of the government made available for investment will be open for buy SGB for the period from February 28th to March 4th.   What is Sovereign Gold Bond?   The Sovereign Gold Bond is an initiative taken by the Government of India to reduce the demand for physical gold as per the Reserve Bank of India as the increasing import of gold is affecting the growth and investment of India. Large quantities ...

Know that senior citizens get many special concessions in income tax

  People above 60 years of age, i.e., senior citizens, not only get the benefit of income tax exemption but also receive special relief from income tax on investments and returns. Elderly citizens do not have to pay any income tax on income up to Rs 3 lakh.   Exemption in tax limit under 80C limit: The tax exemption limit for old citizens in a financial year is Rs 3 lakh, while a common man gets tax exemption only up to Rs 2.5 lakh. For very senior citizens who are above 80 years of age, it is Rs 5 lakh. That is, if the annual income of a senior citizen is up to Rs 3 lakh and TDS has not been deducted, then he need not file an income tax return. Similarly, very senior citizens need not file income tax returns if they do not have an annual income up to Rs 5 lakh.   If the age is more than 75 years then no return is required: Those above 75 years of age are not required to file tax returns. There is no any need to file ITR for people above 75 years of age who are ...

What is the Orange Economy? Top Sectors to Invest in 2026.

  In a time when mechanization and machine learning are changing conventional businesses, a flourishing portion of the worldwide economy is illustrating that human resourcefulness is still a important asset. The "Orange Economy"—also known as the imaginative economy or social industries—has played a major part in protecting culture, making occupations, and developing the economy. But what is this energetic thought, and why is it picking up conspicuousness in discussions almost worldwide development?   What is the Orange Economy?   The express "Orange Economy" was at first utilized by previous Colombian President Iván Duque Márquez and previous Culture Serve Felipe Buitrago. Concurring to the Inter-American Improvement Bank, it is "the organize of interconnected forms through which thoughts are turned into social merchandise and administrations whose esteem is decided by mental property."   Orange was particularly picked since it has been related with devel...