Trade-Based Money Laundering: Red Flags Cheat Sheet

In trade-based money laundering the cargo is real; the trick is in the paperwork. This printable one-pager shows your team how over-invoicing moves dirty money across borders, the 6 paper tricks (over- and under-invoicing, double billing, short and phantom shipping, misdescription and the black market peso exchange), 7 red flags, the cases to know (the 2026 Laredo peso-exchange plea, the Lebanese Canadian Bank used-car scheme and FinCEN's 2025 advisory on Chinese money laundering networks) and who should check what.

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Built from The Risk Café Files episode The Paper Trail. For trade finance, correspondent banking, KYC, monitoring, investigations and customs/logistics teams.

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1-page PDF, Letter size. General information, not legal advice.