COMMONWEALTH MONEY LAUNDERING FEATURE, ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING ORGANISATIONS SERIES
June 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THERE is a large and growing list of regional money laundering organisations, with formal or informal links with the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), so a question mark could hang over why the Commonwealth is getting involved in fighting dirty money. After all, it is an organisation that emerged from the demise of the British Empire, containing as disparate bunch of 53 developed and developing countries as you could imagine. But, claims its secretariat's criminal law section consultant Martin Polaine, these historical ties and the fact that ...
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