I have no idea if that is money laundering or not. But in the Real World™, most money-laundering investigations are done by law firms after a theft of funds is

I have no idea if that is money laundering or not. But in the Real World™, most money-laundering investigations are done by law firms after a theft of funds is discovered. The frauds are typically insider-assisted procurement fraud where some known list of initial illegal transactions are identified and then attempts are make to recover it from intermediate and/or ultimate beneficiaries. The bank accounts of a long list of intermediaries are subpeonaed and the transactions traced. The entire point of money-laundering is to make the trail go cold. The 'contra' bank account entries keeps the trail very, very alive.