serious difficulties facing the many UK agencies attempting to recover proceeds of crime.
Governments are increasingly keen to stress their efforts to track terrorist funding and recover the proceeds of organised crime. A timely report from anticorruption pressure group Transparency International UK (TI) – Combating Money Laundering and Recovering Looted Gains – assesses the United Kingdom’s efforts in the area. It finds them lacking.
‘There have been major improvements to the UK anti-money laundering (AML) regime since 2007 but there are still significant gaps. They are serious enough for us to voice concerns that dirty money is still getting through and the situation cannot continue’, TI executive director Chandrashekhar Krishnan says. He points to the need to improve regulation in overseas territories (OTs) such as the Turks and Caicos, now under scrutiny over corruption allegations, including concerns about money laundering. TI says that such territories should either be funded by the United Kingdom to improve regulation or be wound up as financial centres. ‘It is much too dangerous to leave things as they are’, Krishnan warns
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