INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS FIGHT MONEY LAUNDERING, INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THEIR OPERATIONS
November 1st, 2010
BY ALAN OSBORN
IN all major countries, the agencies responsible for law enforcement are subject to scrutiny of their own activities - either by an external authority or by an internal department acting in response to complaints. The importance of this in the anti-money laundering sector can hardly be exaggerated. Once an organisation is found to have harboured corrupt or incompetent elements, its authority may be destroyed for ever. By and large, the supervisory machinery operated by national governments in the anti-money laundering (AML) sector appears ...
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