ZAGREB, Dec 30 (Hina) - The Croatian Money Laundering Prevention Office has filed 18 charges for crimes connected with the whitewashing of illegally earned money, Office head Ivica Maros said on Thursday. Briefing the press on a
report on the work his office did between November 1997 and mid-1999, Maros said the money came from previous crimes of drug abuse, power abuse in business, the signing of harmful contracts, document forgery, and the abuse of position and power. According to cases forwarded to competent state bodies for further proceedings, the sum of laundered money so far amounted to DM13.4 million, including DM3.8 million of funds laundered in Croatia, and DM9.6 million abroad. Maros said the crimes generating dirty money in Croatia mainly came from economy, which he stressed was typical of all countries in transition. In cooperation with international finance intelligence u
ZAGREB, Dec 30 (Hina) - The Croatian Money Laundering Prevention
Office has filed 18 charges for crimes connected with the
whitewashing of illegally earned money, Office head Ivica Maros
said on Thursday.
Briefing the press on a report on the work his office did between
November 1997 and mid-1999, Maros said the money came from previous
crimes of drug abuse, power abuse in business, the signing of
harmful contracts, document forgery, and the abuse of position and
power.
According to cases forwarded to competent state bodies for further
proceedings, the sum of laundered money so far amounted to DM13.4
million, including DM3.8 million of funds laundered in Croatia, and
DM9.6 million abroad.
Maros said the crimes generating dirty money in Croatia mainly came
from economy, which he stressed was typical of all countries in
transition.
In cooperation with international finance intelligence units,
Croatia's Money Laundering Prevention Office took part in
uncovering money laundering of international proportion in ten
cases.
This was done with money laundering prevention offices from
Slovenia, the United States, the Netherlands, and Brazil, while in
course is the processing of 35 cases in cooperation with offices in
Belgium, Italy, the Russian Federation, the Czech Republic, and
Great Britain.
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