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Suits, money laundering, and linear programming

Currently watching Suits with the family, and an interesting little puzzle came up in the show. In Season 1, episode 8, there is a situation with money laundering from one account to many smaller a…

And this is what this post shows, but doing so made me realize there are likely too many permutations in real data to make this a feasible approach in conducting fraud investigations. So here I use python and the pulp library (and its default open source CBC solver) to show how to write a linear program to pick bundles of accounts that add up to the right amount. So lets put a constraint in that makes it so it needs to be four specific accounts that add up to the correct amount.

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