What You Can Do to Stop Economic Crime | Hanjo Seibert | TED

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Published 2024-04-18
It might sound like the plot of a movie, but economic crime is all around us — from drug trafficking and fraud to cybercrimes, tax evasion and more. Economic crime fighter Hanjo Seibert breaks down the complexities of money laundering and how we can all wield our collective power to dismantle the underworld economy and turn off the money tap for criminals.

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All Comments (21)
  • @rsm014
    Why is there crime stoppers for small misdemeanor offenders, but not big businesses stealing millions?
  • @nerd26373
    Preventing economic crime is how I would've worded it. Nothing is physically stoppable in this world. Prevention may be slightly more realistic in terms of integrating it into contextual situations.
  • @KuhuChan165
    I absolutely agree. Being transparent with purchases, keeping receipts.. that's honest transaction.
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  • @Lotterboy
    The example with the receipt doesn't make any sense. Businesses participating in ML would still claim, that x amount of purchases were made, while in reality it was x-y . Where y = the amount of money laundered. Receipts help prevent tax evasion - not ML, unless governments require each business to issue a receipt for each individual trx. In a mixed scenario, merchants still have all the wiggle room they need for ML.
  • See the Hollywood sitcom series, "The Golden Girls" episode -The Golden Girls exercise program to see how the character Dorothy foiled a suspicious looking supply chain well enough so far as she herself could make a difference when using her credit card.
  • @steves5392
    I really don’t like the suggestion of using Cash as a payment method is ethically wrong, as “some” could be diverted for criminal activities.
  • @edh2246
    Cannabis businesses are all in cash in participating states because it’s still a federal offense.
  • @fj06carnone
    I swear most of those VERY expensive boutique Supercar builders are only laundering money.
  • @paulgainey4924
    Maybe we should make drug dependency aq disease instead of crime ... and billions spent on the criminal process finds its way into the health system
  • @tielessin
    If my FBI agent is reading this: Please take me off the list. I'm just curious to know, I swear!
  • @christaylor9095
    Dude works for banks and is worried about the lack of regulation of me paying cash for a hot dog?! O, the lulz 😂😂
  • @ai8893
    No, im not giving up my privacy and letting the big banks and the government record every purchase and review my buying habits.
  • @bxlis
    I like to pay cash. I like to use cash. It’s a privacy. I don’t want every detail of my spending monitored by the government because of money laundering . And no should care