DIRTY MONEY AND CORRUPTION (SOON)

DIRTY MONEY AND CORRUPTIONThe Social and Political Effects of Money LaunderingAccording to estimates by the United Nations and other international organisations, every year trillions of dollars, a substantial share of the global economy, pass through money laundering channels.Money laundering means far more than concealing the proceeds of crime. It is an invisible mechanism that feeds corruption, strengthens organised crime, paves the way for the financing of terrorism, and erodes a society’s sense of justice. The more invisible dirty money becomes within a country, the weaker its rule of law.This book approaches money laundering not merely as a problem of criminal law, but as a question of politics, morality, democracy, and social trust. Drawing on a framework of thought that runs from Aristotle to Weber and from Hannah Arendt to Rawls, it examines the connections between corruption, impoverishment, democratic decline, and ethical collapse.Through international cases, financial scandals, and organised crime networks, from Latin America to Europe and from London to Dubai, it lays bare how dirty money transforms states, institutions, and societies.A practising lawyer, Mehmet Gokhan Alper Yalcin combines his legal education in Turkey and the United Kingdom and his expertise in international commercial law with hands-on entrepreneurial experience in finance, technology, and mergers and acquisitions. Writing from within both the law and capital itself, he turns this dual perspective on one of the quietest yet most destructive problems of our age.This book does not merely describe money laundering; it questions its true cost to society.

“Because sometimes a society decays not by the gun, but by invisible dirty money.”

BOOK INFORMATION

Book Title: Money Laundering and Corruption

Author: Attorney Mehmet Gökhan Alper Yalçın

Number of Pages: ******

Size / Format: 13.5 x 19.5 cm

Genre: Academic / Research