PARALLEL INVESTIGATIONS CAN HELP MONEY LAUNDERING AND PREDICATE CRIME INQUIRIES

BY ALAN OSBORN BY its very nature, money laundering tells us that another crime is being, or has been committed. The detection of the act of money laundering itself is usually the handiwork of specialised Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) but these often do not have the resources or the responsibility to investigate the predicate crime. Other law enforcement authorities such as local, national or federal police, customs officers or specialised units fighting terrorism and organised crime, may conduct their own separate inquiries into the same irregularity at ...


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