UNODC HELPING DEVELOPING COUNTRIES BOOST THEIR AML CONTROLS
September 1st, 2010
BY SHANNELLE LAMARE, KEITH NUTHALL
FOR the last five years the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), in partnership with the World Bank (WB), has been operating the Global Programme against Money Laundering (GPML) to boost Vietnam's AML/CFT (anti-money laundering and combating financing of terrorism) systems. The project - which was launched in 1997 - made its way into the Mekong region of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam in 2005.
GPML efforts have also focused on Central Asia, Africa, Central America, and the Pacific Islands since the programme's ...
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