Methods and Stages

The explosion of money laundering

Macroeconomic Consequences

The Risks to Financial Institutions

The Risk to the Financial System

The Euro and Money Laundering

Money Laundering as Tax Evasion

Social and Political Costs

International Conventions

EU Directives on Money Laundering

The Achilles Heel

Bibliography and some useful links

Peter Lilley, Dirty Dealing: The Untold Truth about Global Money Laundering,(2000 Kogan Page Limited, London)

N.C. DeAssis & S.M. Yikona, Financial Sector Development and Money Laundering, (1996 Mission Press, Zambia)

Guy Stessens, Money Laundering, (2000 Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)

Peter Temple, Essential Elements of the Prevention of Money Laundering, (2001 Securities Institute Washington DC)

William C Gilmore, International Efforts to Combat Money Laundering, (1992 Grotius Publications, Cambridge)

Sandeep Savla, Money Laundering and Financial Intermediaries, (2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, Dordrechdt)

http://www.countermoneylaundering.com/ By antimoneylaundering.net

http://www.laundryman.u-net.com/home.htm Billy's Money Laundering Information Site, Billy Steele.

http://www1.oecd.org/fatf/ Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering website.

http://www.undcp.org/money_laundering.html United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention

http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations/corrupt/laundering/2001/0402eu.htm Money-Laundering Rules May Upset EU By Deborah Hargreaves Financial Times April 2, 2001

http://www.eurunion.org/news/press/2001/2001088.htm EU in the USA website.

http://www.imf.org/external/np/ml/2001/eng/021201.htm IMF website on money laundering, very useful when looking at the financial implications of money laundering.

International Monetary Fund. Enhancing Contributions to Combating
Money Laundering: Policy Paper. Prepared by the staffs of the
International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Washington, D.C.:
IMF, 2001.
http://www.imf.org/external/np/ml/2001/eng/042601.htm

http://www.worldbank.org/fandd/english/0397/articles/0110397.htm World Bank website, deals primarily on the macro-economic consequences of money laundering.

Schroeder, William. "Money Laundering: A Global Threat and the
International Community's Response," FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin:
(May 2001), pp. 1-9.
http://www.fbi.gov/publications/leb/leb.htm

National Money Laundering Strategy for 2000.
Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Treasury and U.S. Department
of Justice, 2000.
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/docs/ml2000.pdf

U.S. Department of State. Money Laundering and Financial Crimes.
Washington, D.C.: Bureau of International Narcotics and Law
Enforcement, 2001.
http://www.state.gov/g/inl/rls/nrcrpt/2000/index.cfm?docid=959