There are plenty of banks that operate with rather flexible attitudes towards the onerous financial regulations most US residents are familiar with. Add in the

There are plenty of banks that operate with rather flexible attitudes towards the onerous financial regulations most US residents are familiar with. Add in the archipelago of tax havens and opaque ownership structures and for criminals operating above a certain level; accessing the global financial system is less of a problem than you might think. The problem then becomes one of legitimizing money that was obtained through criminal means. And in this case the definition of criminal extends to otherwise legitimate enterprise carried out by actors who are under sanction from the US government.