INTERAMERICAN DRUG ABUSE CONTROL COMMISSION CICAD – REGIONAL ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING ORGANISATION FEATURE
February 1st, 2006
BY ALAN OSBORN
IN line with the growing recognition in the 1980s of anti-money laundering campaigns as a weapon against terrorism and increased knowledge global drug supply routes, (implicating a number of Latin American countries), governments of the western hemisphere concluded that greater formal co-operation was necessary in fighting dirty money. A consequence was that in April 1986 the Organisation of American States (OAS) adopted the "Program of Action of Río de Janeiro" which established the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) ...
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