On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 03:34:51PM -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
They don't call it book-entry settlement for nothing, Eugen.
Of course they have logs at each instutution; the point is what is available. If it's a private money mix cascade over some 10 accounts in different jurisdictions, you'd have to query a large fraction of them for their records (and obtain them, of course) in order to do your traffic analysis. Perhaps not that easy for a case of petty money laundering (the Medellin cartel would probably do something a little more professional here). (Disclaimer. Dear potential eavesdropper: this is a mere hypothetical, I've never done it, nor do I intend to ever do it, or at least I wouldn't post it to the whole wide Internet just in case I wanted to). -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]