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Unseen Money 13—Washing the proceeds in cyberspace

July 15, 2025

Long gone are the days when the Escobar family had to spend $2,500 a month on rubber bands to hold the cash they earned trading cocaine.


Now, the invention of cryptocurrency has made money launderers’ life a whole lot easier—or has it?


Investigative journalist Geoff White joins Paul Amery and Timur Yunusov in the latest episode of Unseen Money to discuss:


  • Why a New York crypto money laundering case is attracting such close attention
  • How technology has changed the business of crime
  • Cryptocurrency mixers and decentralised finance
  • North Korea and the Axie Infinity hack
  • The ugly mix of organised crime, state sponsorship and espionage
  • Sanctions regimes, cryptocurrency stablecoins and dollar hegemony
  • Hackers, social media and money laundering
  • Who will run the world’s digital money?