Dirty Money: You Don't Get Rich by Playing Fair: How the World Really Works

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

What if the financial system is not failing to stop dirty money, but working exactly as designed?

Every year, trillions of dollars generated through drug trafficking, corruption, fraud, and tax evasion move through banks, shell companies, property markets, and respected professional institutions.

The criminals are only the beginning.

Dirty Money: You Don’t Get Rich By Playing Fair follows the hidden journey of criminal wealth from street-level cash deposits to offshore companies, luxury property, international banking, professional sports, and legitimate investment funds.

Through the Danske Bank scandal, the Kinahan cartel, the Sinaloa cartel, the Ndrangheta, synthetic identities, cryptocurrency networks, and the global property market, James Carter reveals how dirty money becomes clean and why less than one percent of it is ever recovered.

But this is not only a story about cartels, bankers, lawyers, and billionaires.

It is about the apartment you cannot afford. The taxes someone else avoided. The public services left underfunded. The pension funds, banks, and markets ordinary people trust every day.

The money may be hidden.

The cost is not.