Deciding the moral state of money
In many countries, monies suspected of being associated with drug trafficking can be seized by the authorities. One of the ways of investigating this association is through the analysis of seized banknotes for traces of controlled drugs.
We report three studies which may assist the expert in assessing whether banknotes contaminated with diamorphine are part of the general population of notes in circulation or whether they show unusual contamination patterns which require explanation….
Jointly, the three studies give useful indications for the spread of contamination throughout a sample and the amounts of heroin which may be expected given plausible contamination scenarios.
So says the study (which contains the three studies it mentions) “The Difference Between Drug Money and a ‘Lifetime’s Savings‘” by Karl A. Ebejer, J. Winn, J. Carter, R. Sleeman, J. Parker, F. K?rber, published in Forensic Science International, Volume 167, Issue 2-3, Pages 94-101. The researchers are based in Bristol, UK.
(Thanks to investigator Tom Gill for bringing this to our attention.)