... case previously were gangsters and the mafia groups from the USA were earning huge sums of cash from extortion, prostitution, gambling and bootleg liquor. The method of money laundering was used to conceal their dirty money, by purchasing legitimate businesses and mixing their illicit earnings with the legitimate earnings they recovered from these businesses, on the surface making it look legitimate. The process of money laundering and the extent of its effect came into light essentially within a drug trafficking context due to the rapid increase of drug abuse in the 1980's primarily from the distribution of the narcotic drug in the western countries from drug trafficking. From this it came to light the actual extent of profits generated from criminal activities which was huge. Therefore governments were urged to act against drug trafficking and combat criminal organisations from earning huge profits from drugs which could contaminate and corrupt the ...

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