MACEDONIA RAISES GAME ON MONEY LAUNDERING CONTROLS
August 1st, 2006
BY ALAN OSBORN
CONSIDERING everything against it - a turbulent political history since the break-up of Yugoslavia, a weak, cash-based and largely 'grey' economy, poor living standards and feeble inflows of foreign investment among other things - Macedonia has done very well to set up a relatively impressive slew of anti money laundering legislation in recent years. Macedonia is not on one of the established Balkan drug routes and has never been considered a port-of-call for terrorist funds but money laundering, tax evasion and other financial crimes have ...
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