SAN MARINO REPORT MONEY LAUNDERING
November 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALL AND ALAN OSBORNTHE TOP selling guidebook Lonely Planet is rather dismissive of San Marino, calling the world's oldest republic and Europe's third smallest state "a silly place". True, there is a touch of the comic opera about this Italian-speaking enclave, with it spiffily unformed ceremonial guards and its reliance on sales of colourful stamps, but San Marino does have a significant financial sector, and so is of interest to anti-money laundering professionals. Indeed, in its 2000 assessment of the republic the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) ...
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