This week, OFAC pronounced Pakistani drug-lord Shahbaz Khan a Specially Designated Narcotics Trafficking Kingpin (SDNTK). The members of his organisation, many of whom are now serving long prison sentences, utilised a cross-section of commercial front businesses in the Southwest Asia/Middle East region, as well as in Western Europe. A look at the countries where his money laundering operations were conducted, and the types of businesses he employed, offers a slice of money laundering trade-craft as practised in the Middle East. Of course, all the front companies were also designated by OFAC.

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