FINANCIAL CRIME INSIGHTS: MONEY LAUNDERING RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH MONEY MULES

Persons being used as money mules may be knowingly or unknowingly complicit in the laundering of funds, thereby helping criminals to profit from illicit activities. Criminals use money mules to conceal the origin of their illicit funds and ultimately benefit from the proceeds of crime. By using the accounts of money mules to receive and transfer these proceeds, the mules help to create distance between the criminal and their ill-gotten gains.