When you put it this way I actually agree with you, last time we got into a debate over nothing I guess. I would say it is not 'traditional' money laundering rather than proper though. There is certainly a distinction to be made between having dirty money turned into clean money that you pay tax on and can spend without raising eyebrows (traditional money laundering) and getting/sending financial value that can not be traced to you. But both will fall under money laundering laws, and the second is considered to be more modern money laundering versus the traditional methods, one article called it criminal payment transfer rather than ML though so maybe that is indeed a better word for it. That said I have absolutely no doubt that you know more about accounting and traditional money laundering than I do, but I would like to point out that modern forms of "money laundering" are actually high technical (bitcoin mixes, bitcoin itself, for two of many examples).