Professional money-scrubbers are attracted into those countries because money laundering is not against the law, and banks and brokerages most of the time don’t verify the provenance of a customer’s investment funds.

Because of this enormous problem, twenty-nine countries have been united and form an organization to fight the money laundering, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). However, where the efforts of the FATF, the issues of money laundering will ever be a huge problem. The International Monetary Fund has stated that the aggregate size of money laundering in the world could be somewhere between % and 5% of the world’s gross domestic product. Using 16 statistics, these percentages would indicate that money laundering ranged between 50 billion and 1.5 trillion USD. In fact the money laundering affects businesses, economic development and the society at large.

According to Billy Steel, who has an honours degree in Financial Services and who is interested in money laundering, authorities are afraid of the future because of the new technologies, the new of exchanging money whit e-cash (virtual money) and organized crime owning banks. Organized crime controls some banks, already in Russia it is said that criminal groups control over 400 banks and 47 exchanges.

Money laundering is a large-scale issue all over the world, and a international problem, authorities and the government should being able to work together with those countries who money laundering is legal and enable financial institutions to play a role in dealing with the problem.