LAWYERS GAIN EXPERTISE IN AML – BUT ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING PRACTICES HAVE YET TO OPEN

BY ALAN OSBORN THERE is an increasing body of law associated with money laundering regulations worldwide and where there is law, there is - of course - lawyers. So to what extent is an anti-money laundering cadre of legal specialists emerging around the world. Here, in the last of the Money Laundering Bulletin's series on the development of AML as a defined profession, we look at the emergence of the anti-money laundering lawyer. In the European Union (EU), lawyers have assumed a prominent, if often unwilling, role in the fight against money laundering in the ...


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