Money laundering isn't about spending their ill gotten gains on other things (such as bribery and terrorism and economic, political, or kinetic warfare). It's about spending the tax dollars of a controlled nation on those things illicitly. They don't typically stoop down so low as to spend their own money on their illegal activities. That could result in following the money directly back to them thus risking exposing the true leaders pulling the strings to direct the corruption to their own benefit. The trick is to spend other people's money on advancing their illicit goals. That way when they do an audit and find that money was misappropriated or laundered, the paper trail when following the money never directly touches them. Especially when the auditors or overseers have also been paid with the laundered funds. And the best thing for them is they never spent a dime of their own funds and thus have no risk of things breaking down, but they did take up positions to benefit from the outcomes purchased by the laundered funds.

For the underlings to the cabal of secret leaders pulling strings, laundering funds is a slightly more direct affair. First send money to somewhere else. Second have a pre arrangement that the group or government receiving the funds will somehow redirect a percentage of the money back to you (possibly through intermediaries)

Oh look ### billion dollars are appropriated to Ukraine....it's a war zone. It has a track record of illicit use and misappropriation of funds. I'm sure all that money was used to buy necessities for the warfare being supported as specified in the bill and nothing was laundered back to the campaigns or personal wealth accounts or undeclared offshore shell corporations owned by the politicians who voted to send the money to Ukraine. I bet Ukraine's grant auditors will show nothing untoward happened with those billions in funding.

For some 3 letter agencies, Money laundering is a mutually beneficial means to supporting the black budget projects and insuring continued congressional authorisation of funding and power for law enforcement. Oh look the DEA is trying to stop drugs. The CIA gets into drugs to make money off all parties. The DEA benefits indirectly as their budget increases to meet the rising drug problem and they get additional police powers as the problem doesn't improve. Some people with moderate influence are targeted for blackmail and as long as they cooperate with the requests of the CIA in an unofficial relationship, they also get less attention from DEA on the drugs they buy in bulk.

The reasons go on and on but its generally used by the cabal because of the low risk to personal assets and personal reputation while providing high rewards to their official positions and also for blackmail creating puppet assets for future installation into positions of power while again not directly tying back to the Cabal leadership.

Soros is a lieutenant. Klaus Schwab is a lieutenant.