https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-022-00318-w
Regular Article
The geometry of suspicious money laundering activities in financial networks
1
Department of Economics and International Trade, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Carrera 4 No. 22-61, Bogotá, Colombia
2
Departamento de Matemáticas, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Carrera 7 No. 40-62, Bogotá, Colombia
a
oscarm.granadose@utadeo.edu.co
Received:
21
May
2021
Accepted:
17
January
2022
Published online:
8
February
2022
Corruption and organized crime are social problems that affect different communities around the world, involving public and private organizations in diverse sectors and activities. However, these problems are global phenomena that transcend economic, cultural, and social borders, especially, when corrupt individuals use the global financial system to protect their illegal money. This paper aims to evaluate the money laundering mechanism in financial networks, studying the structure of some suspicious money laundering groups, and how they could be detected by the use of topological and geometrical considerations that avoid the need of possibly non-available (or restricted) information.
Key words: Financial services / Financial crime / Money laundering / Network topology / Network geometry
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