Long gone are the days when the Escobar family had to spend $2,500 a month on rubber bands to hold the cash they earned trading cocaine.

Now, the invention of cryptocurrency has made money launderers’ life a whole lot easier—or has it?

Investigative journalist Geoff White joins Paul Amery and Timur Yunusov in the latest episode of Unseen Money to discuss:

• Why a New York crypto money laundering case is attracting such close attention
• How technology has changed the business of crime
• Cryptocurrency mixers and decentralised finance
• North Korea and the Axie Infinity hack
• The ugly mix of organised crime, state sponsorship and espionage
• Sanctions regimes, cryptocurrency stablecoins and dollar hegemony
• Hackers, social media and money laundering
• Who will run the world’s digital money?