Anti-corruption agencies around the world quite often are looking at a variety of crimes when they investigate someone who is laundering money. The only reason someone needs to clean their cash is that they came into that cash through previously committed illegal activities. Drug dealers deal with large sums of money. The mafia and the gang members of the cities across American as well, deal with cash transactions that are not easy to explain. Therefore their past actions require a bit of cleansing.
When someone is intending to fund the acts of terrorism and those who will commit those acts, they are cleaning the money for their future illicit activities. Either way, money laundering is done in order to evade the law and/or to evade paying taxes. Sometimes the laundering takes place at the financial institutions, by way of withdrawals and deposits or by depositing the money into accounts in foreign banks. Other times it is carried out through cover businesses. In this way, they are making some profit that they claim to the government, and it just seems that they are unusually busy business owners, as none of the cash transactions can be proven, so they get away with it, for a while.
However, even if the law enforcement agencies do not take notice, you can bet that the Internal Revenue Service will. That is why coin operated businesses such as car washes or laundromats are so effective. For unlike a bar or a restaurant which needs to place orders, documents that can be analyzed and compared to profit margins, the untraceable people just simply washing their clothes or their vehicles do not leave a paper trail. This is why so many organized crime syndicates choose these types of businesses under which to take cover. Gangsters of old did it, and the gang members of today are doing it.
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