Publicly at least, there haven't been major seizures of its drugs or counterfeit currency in several years, leading analysts to speculate that targeting the country's illicit finances successfully crippled those particular earning schemes.
A spokesperson for the Treasury, which drafts the anti-money-laundering rules, said: "The UK has a comprehensive anti-money-laundering regime and we are committed to ensuring our financial system is a hostile environment for illicit finances.
-- Details of corruption and cross-border criminal activity, including weapons trafficking, human trafficking, alien smuggling, illicit finance, and cigarette smuggling.
But combating the global pandemic of tax evasion and illicit finance will take more than encouraging words.
America's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the arm of the Treasury tasked with fighting illicit finance, has been broadening its definition of money laundering, bankers say.
In addition to its illicit financing activities, the group has proved adept at stealing from Islamic charities, like mosque-building projects and schools, according to several Somali elders.
Mr. Schauble, 57, represented the old school, one now tainted by its association with the system of illicit financing put in place by Mr. Kohl.
Donald G. McNeil Jr. GERMANY: KOHL FACES SUIT -- Facing huge fines over illicit financing, the Christian Democratic Party may sue Helmut Kohl, the former chancellor, for damages.
Joly said "we now have proof", pointing towards the "illicit financing of Nicolas Sarkozy's campaign in 2007" and that this was "very serious for democracy".
Levitt has also recently been appointed associate fellow of the Henry Jackson Society, who describe him as "a leading authority on illicit finance related to terrorism".
"But as the Panama Papers show, tax evasion is part of a wider set of international criminality activity, together with money laundering, illicit finance and evading sanctions".
