Investigating crimes like money laundering, document fraud, and tax evasion—the ones that can land real jail time and hefty fines—takes painstaking diligence and resources. It’s tough enough to make the public care about fish, much less fish laundering, which involves faking the fish’s origin. It’s harder still to get tax dollars dedicated to multinational investigations into ostensibly “bloodless” crimes that seem to matter only on paper.
