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Earth Times News Service, May 7, 2000
Two far-reaching and potentially controversial anti-money laundering measures would require professionals such as lawyers and accountants to file the same sort of suspicious transaction reports that banks do and would extend “know your customer” rules to include the owners of companies. The Council of Europe has already proposed the first. US authorities have not acted on either.
Earth Times News Service, Oct 31, 1999
The dangers of international money laundering are massively magnified by electronic transfers and the new electronic cash. “The really big challenge that’s coming, that’s arrived, is electronic cash,” said Thomas Roche, Deputy General Counsel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. “That’s going to present really daunting challenges. There’s always been an audit trail in credit cards and checks.
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