Criminal organizations and other malign actors exploit vulnerabilities in the U.S. financial and trade systems to obscure the source and destination of ill-gotten proceeds and further their illicit activity. GAO recently issued two reports on illicit finance and federal efforts to combat it. GAO teams will discuss 1) trafficking and money laundering strategies used by transnational criminal organizations and terrorist groups and 2) trade -based money laundering. Links to the reports are below:

https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-447
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-22-104807