This is the third edition of this publication which explores key issues in the fast evolving field of money laundering and terrorist financing, and which has been restructured so as to fully reflect the high international priority given to tackling the financing of terrorism since September 2001. It takes into account recent developments such as the revised recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF), as agreed in June 2003; pan-European responses and the 2001 EU Directive; and recent initiatives taken by the United Nations, FATF, the Organization of American States and other organisations. The publication is designed for a wide audience, including government officials and regulators, officials in banks and non-banking financial institutions, professions such as lawyers and accountants, academics and students.

This title offers commentary on the latest in a continuum of drug abuse control treaties, in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances.

International co-operation and criminal law enforcement have become a centrally important policy issue for Europe in the 1990s. This book examines all of the major empirical and theoretical issues associated with the emerging pattern of co-operation, including the harmonization of criminal law and criminal procedures, law enforcement strategies, police organization and discipline, and the politics of immigration and civil liberties.

This volume contains the basic international documents relating to the conditions under which one country will provide information, evidence and other forms of assistance to another in the investigation and prosecution of criminal offences and in countering malpractice in the world's securities and futures markets. Major multilateral initiatives have been pioneered by the United Nations, the Council of Europe, the Organisation of American States, the Commonwealth and others. Supported by a growing number of sub-regional and bilateral agreements, the obligations imposed have had a major impact on domestic legislation and are of increasing importance to prosecutors and national regulatory authorities. The work contains a substantive Introduction which places the documents in context and provides a detailed overview of the subject.

Officialy defined as "the illegal acquisition and retention of another person's proceeds from drug traffiking, terrorism and other serious crimes" the topic of money laundering is examined in this volume. Dealing specifically with issues raised by the new Criminal Justice act 1993; money laundering under EC and international law, and considers how financial institutions, the law and the police can tackle the problem.

An explanatory report on the 2003 Caribbean Regional Agreement. Includes the text of the Agreement and of Art. 17 of the 1988 UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances. Available for order from: http://www.tsoshop.co.uk/bookstore.asp?Action=Book&ProductID=0115917853