AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE AND CRIME-FIGHTING AGENCIES HONE THEIR AML AND CFT BATTLE
October 1st, 2006
BY ANDREW CAVE
AFTER 9/11, America positioned itself at the centre of the international crackdown on money laundering and terrorist financing, and its legal response has been well documented in the Money Laundering Bulletin. But what of its federal police and intelligence agencies? Unsurprisingly, they have been busy in fighting and detecting movements of illicit money, with publicly-available statistics bearing evidence of this effort. Last year, depository institutions filed 958 suspicious activity reports, based on suspicions of terrorist financing alone, and ...
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