Reverse Money Laundering

Reverse money laundering is the process where the money that starts out legitimate and grows “dirty” in its ultimate purpose.

Terrorist financing is also often referred to as reverse money laundering as it focuses on utilising legal assets to carry out terrorist activities, which are often in the form of clean sources such as charitable organisations and legitimate business organisations. Likewise, for terrorist financing, it is more difficult to more monitor, detect and prevent due to the legitimate funds.