ABSTRACT
Moreover much of the criminal activity will be in payments and transactions made after the original goods and services are produced. And in contrast to the two previous cases, the authorities will, for legal and moral reasons, be most interested in eliminating the production of these goods and services rather than collecting the taxes and enforcing the social security code. But this means that they should do this either by operating on the output side, with legal sanctions on the producers of criminal goods and services and/or measures which eliminate the incentives for such activities; or by operating on the payments side by raising the costs of spending, and the penalties on laundering, concealing and otherwise benefiting from the proceeds. Of course that may well involve foreign authorities since there is an obvious incentive to try to launder “hot” money by crossing national or jurisdictional frontiers. On the other hand, that provides the authorities with an additional opportunities for checks and interventions designed to control the laundering of money.
