Money launderers find safe havens amid e-commerce boom

Drug cartels using e-commerce to launder money

Marty Byrde and his family in the runaway hit Netflix series “Ozark” gives viewers an inside look at criminal enterprises and the efforts they go through to launder money. In the show, Byrde leverages legitimate businesses — a funeral home, strip club and casino — in an effort to launder money for a Mexican drug cartel.

To make the series as realistic as possible, producers brought in FBI agents and financial compliance specialists to ensure the plot was accurate when it came to how money...

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