Question

1. Over the past year, a customer has surrendered, in whole or in part, three life insurance policies. If part of a money laundering operation, these transactions represent which stage

Answer 1

Answer:

It represents the Integration stage

Explanation:

Money laundering is an illegal chain of activities done by individuals or corporate bodies to change the status of money gotten through a criminal activity into legitimate money. This chain of activities starts with the Placement stage then transforms into the Layering stage, then ends when it is already integrated into the legitimate financial system through the Integration stage.

After the money launderer conceals the illegal money through bank deposits or purchasing a life insurance policy at the Placement stage, the launderer then proceeds to further break the money into smaller amounts to evade suspicion by numerous transactions and bank deposits at the Layering stage, which is then ended by partial or whole surrenders of life insurance policies to make it now legitimate money.