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Shareholders loans: a simple method of money laundering

dc.contributor.authorAlves, Jorge
dc.contributor.authorMoreira, José
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-29T09:37:34Z
dc.date.available2018-03-29T09:37:34Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractThis study aims to discuss money laundering from a new perspective. For Mitchell et al. (1998) and Bingham (1992), among others, underlying money laundering there are complex webs of transactions with the purpose of “cleaning” illicit funds, transmitting them “through the banking system in such a way as to disguise the origin or ownership of the funds”. One reads this description and thinks of dark environments, gangsters and drug dealers. However, money can be laundered in simple ways that the literature does not discuss, and are familiar for many people. It is the case of shareholders loans that can be used as a solution for cleaning the proceedings of invoiceless sales firms make. For the Portuguese case, we gather empirical evidence and test the hypothesis that such loans are used as a laundry solution for those proceedings. We use a methodology based on two main steps. First, it classifies firms according to their tax fraud behavior by invoiceless sales; second, it relates shareholders loans to such proceedings. We found a positive relationship between these two variables. This result will be a contribution to the literature bringing into the discussion another money laundry tool.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationAlves, Jorge; Moreira, José (2015). Shareholders loans: a simple method of money laundering. [S.l.]: OBEGEF – Observatório de Economia e Gestão de Fraude. ISBN 978-989-755-144-4pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn978-989-755-144-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10198/16625
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.publisherOBEGEF – Observatório de Economia e Gestão de Fraudept_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectTax fraudpt_PT
dc.subjectInvoiceless salespt_PT
dc.subjectMoney launderingpt_PT
dc.subjectShareholders loanspt_PT
dc.subjectAccountingpt_PT
dc.titleShareholders loans: a simple method of money launderingpt_PT
dc.typeworking paper
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oaire.citation.conferencePlacePortopt_PT
oaire.citation.titlei2fC:2014 - Multiple perspectives of the Shadow economypt_PT
person.familyNameAlves
person.givenNameJorge
person.identifier.ciencia-id2718-FF3E-8B6B
person.identifier.orcid0000-0002-5168-8795
person.identifier.ridW-4214-2017
person.identifier.scopus-author-id57197042752
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typeworkingPaperpt_PT
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