NEW CENTRAL ASIA FATF PUSHES ANTI-MONEYLAUNDERING PROGRESS IN REGION
May 1st, 2011
BY MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL
CENTRAL Asia is often in the news regarding political instability, and the complexity of the region's borders and ethnicities make for an opacity that can encourage the growth of organised crime. Also, being far from the centres of anti-money laundering activities and standard setting - in Europe, north America and east Asia, the region's often authoritarian governments have a poor reputation regarding the enforcement of law and judicial probity. So the establishment of a FATF (Financial Action Task Force)-style body in the region, ...
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