RUSSIA MAKES STRIDES AHEAD IN TOUGHENING MONEY LAUNDERING CONTROLS
December 1st, 2007
BY NICK HOLDSWORTH, in Moscow
RUSSIA'S outgoing president Vladimir Putin put the fight against corruption and money laundering top of the agenda September 2007 when in a surprise move he appointed Viktor Zubkov as prime minister, following the resignation of a government lead by technocrat Mikhail Fradkov.
Zubkov was an old friend and political ally of Putin's from St Petersburg who as a Soviet-era Communist functionary had risen from running a Leningrad collective farm to be head of Russia's key anti-money laundering body, the Federal Financial Monitoring ...
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