RUSSIA
August 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLRUSSIA has ratified the Council of Europe's Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime, a move that could herald a tightening in Russian government policy towards the fighting of money laundering.Signatories have to ensure that their national legislation provides for the confiscation of the proceeds of crime. When these have been transferred abroad, convention countries are committed to co-operating to freeze and seize these proceeds, whether they be money or property. The convention also insists that the ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.