Trust in Money Laundering
It is said that there is no honor among thieves. The phrase, as it is used colloquially, refers to any group that engages in criminal behavior. It does not refer only to thieves. The idea is this: if you are a thief, then you never want to trust the word of another thief. You can always assume that the other thief will rat you out if it gives them any sort of advantage. You can find a clear example in the prisoners' dilemma . Here's an illustration: suppose that there are two thieves, A and B. The police caught A and B red-handed taking property from a house. The police, therefore, has evidence that both A and B have committed theft (defined as the unlawful taking of another's property, without the use of violence). At the same time, the police discovered the owner of the house beaten and bruised in an alley nearby. The police suspect that A and B ambushed the owner of the house, stole his house keys, and went on their way to steal from the house. If this were true, then