Being conduits for most financial transactions, governments closely watch banks and bank executives who are normally used as mules in illicit financial flows.
By their nature, illicit financial flows take complex structures and also use non convention practices such as physical smuggling of cash out of the boarders, making it difficult for authorities to monitor and plug leakages.
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