The country's finance ministry, for example, has directed banks to step up safeguards to prevent money laundering, cut off loans to mob-related companies and deny bank accounts to individuals with known gangster ties.
· The government announces stern new measures to curb money laundering to cut off terrorist funds.
MEPs discussed the challenges facing the EU during the State of the Union debate and approved digital copyright rules and measures to counter money laundering and cut plastic waste.
Journalists, for instance, can't follow the example of the US, where the FBI has arrested George Cottrell, a former aide to Nigel Farage, on money-laundering charges and cut a plea-bargain deal in return for his testimony.
The bank is also considering closing up to 36,000 non-sterling accounts, according to Sky News, because of concerns about money laundering and a determination to cut costs by McEwan.
Each time it launders our shirts, the industry cuts out of it a big piece of cloth.
The Treasury Department labeled the exchange houses, Kassem Rmeiti and Halawi Exchange, "primary money laundering concerns," which will most likely cut them off from the American financial system.
Loggers and dealers quickly shift between regions and countries to avoid local and international policing efforts, laundering wood by mixing it with legally cut timber, or passing off wood originating from wild forests as plantation timber.
Loughlin and others were indicted on additional charges of money laundering and fraud conspiracy, increasing pressure to cut a deal with prosecutors.
Many banks in poor countries are adopting rich-world controls on money-laundering to avoid being cut off from global finance.
