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loan-backs

loan-backs is the plural of loan-back.

Meaning of loan-back

Noun

loan-back (plural loan-backs)

  1. A money laundering or tax avoidance scheme in which money is deposited in an offshore bank and then borrowed back by a shell company controlled by the holder of that bank account.
    • It was Lansky who pioneered the “loan-back” technique. Money was moved in the form of cash, traveller's cheques, or bearer bonds for deposit in numbered Swiss accounts. The money then returned home in the form of "loans" to the person who had initiated the cycle, who would replay the loan with...2013, Richard Swift, Great Revenue Robbery: How to Stop the Tax Cut Scam and Save Canada, →ISBN

Questions about loan-backs

What is loan-backs the plural of?
Loan-backs is the plural of loan-back.

Words near loan-backs in the dictionary

  1. loan translation
  2. loan translations
  3. loan word
  4. loan words
  5. loan-back
  6. loan-backs
  7. loan-blend
  8. loan-blends
  9. loanability
  10. loanable
  11. loanable funds

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