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Book review: International Guide to Money Laundering Law and Practice (Fourth Edition)

02 May 2014
Issue: 7604 / Categories: Features
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"This edition should have a place in every practitioner’s library"

Authors: Arun Srivastava, Mark Simpson, Nina Moffat
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 9781847669797
Price: £225

Just as the fourth edition of this invaluable guide is published to update us on all that has happened since the last edition in December 2009; so it is that recent events demonstrate already that there will be much to write about when the hard working editors come to consider a fifth edition in a few years time.

Recently the bitcoin crypto-currency has been in the news with the closure of the Silk Road website and the collapse of Mt Gox and Flexcoin, one a bitcoin exchange and the other a bank. Whatever may be the fate of bitcoin, there are sure to be other crypto-currencies in the future, independent of any central bank control and an obvious attraction for money launderers. This book rightly points out that the international community will have to legislate to combat the threat to the global financial system posed by such

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