president at the time of the interview, “The merging of the two companies would provide each with a significant inroad to the market segments dominated by the other, while allowing both companies to focus more on their core technologies, said Mr. Costello. Insiders said that while the potential synergy is there, one of the biggest challenges for the new company would be dealing with overlapping products as well as the R&D, marketing, sales and distribution efforts connected to them.” (Holden 1).
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What is Money Laundering? Money laundering is a method by which the background and ownership of money is generated as a result of illegal activity, can be concealed. In effect the money is “cleaned, laundered or disguised through honest means and as an outcome the earnings lose their existing criminal identity and look as if it was generated from a legitimate source. This practice is usually completed a number of times. It is common for this procedure to occur in respect of the earnings from drugs
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