A viral Facebook post from April 2 claims Ukraine is the money laundering and child sex trafficking "capital of the world." While the groups create multiple reports on modern slavery, their Global Slavery Index looks at modern slavery data on a country-by-country basis. Money laundering "capital" difficult to pinpointWhile various indices exist for human trafficking, ranking countries by prevalence of money laundering is a much trickier endeavor. The Basel Anti-Money Laundering Index is an annual ranking of money laundering and terrorist funding risk on a country-by-country basis. No country is free of money laundering, Kumar said, and depending on several factors – size of the economy, strength of the judicial system, type of government – the risk of money laundering can rise or fall dramatically.
