Money laundering for dummies: If you’re the kind of person to dip your toes into the world of illicit narcotics trafficking, chances are at some point you’ll need to find a way to clean up all that dirty money. Bloomberg has you covered. Thankfully you have a lot of options available to you: shell companies, mirror trades and a process known as ‘smurfing’ — the separation of large quantities of money into smaller amounts that can be deposited in banks in different locations.