This article contributes empirically and conceptually to the literature on finance and security in the light of anti-money laundering and to discussions on international crime control and social order. It draws on unique data in Switzerland to question the chain of security through which the main global policy against crime is produced in concreto. What and who is denounced by financial institutions for suspicious activities? What and who is ultimately punished by criminal justice institutions? Is the fight against illicit finance nothing more than a “broken enforcement system,” or a universal punitive instrument, regardless targeted actors? What does it mean for the general social order at the time of financial capitalism? The article revisits Foucault's lost in translation concept of illegalism to shift the questioning of international crime control to the issue of power relationships’ recomposition and social, class differentiation. As a global policy against criminality at large, anti-money laundering represents a critical entry point to question the general economy of illegalisms from an international perspective. The article makes explicit that economic and financial illegalisms are less punished than others, and they are even less so when practiced by ruling elites, even if they are the most denounced at first.

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最受谴责，最受惩罚：统治精英、非法行为和反洗钱

本文从经验和概念上为反洗钱方面的金融和安全文献以及关于国际犯罪控制和社会秩序的讨论做出了贡献。它利用瑞士的独特数据来质疑主要的全球打击犯罪政策具体制定的安全链。金融机构因可疑活动而谴责什么以及谁？刑事司法机构最终会惩罚什么以及谁？打击非法金融只不过是一种“破碎的执法系统”，还是一种普遍的惩罚工具，无论目标行为者如何？这对金融资本主义时代的一般社会秩序意味着什么？这篇文章重新审视了福柯 迷失在非法主义概念的翻译中，将对国际犯罪控制的质疑转向权力关系的重组和社会、阶级分化的问题。作为一项打击整个犯罪活动的全球政策，反洗钱是从国际角度质疑非法活动的总体经济的关键切入点。文章明确指出，经济和金融违法行为受到的惩罚比其他违法行为要少，而在统治精英的实践中，它们受到的惩罚更小，即使它们一开始是最受谴责的。