Money Laundering and the Asia/Pacific Region

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Tuesday, June 1, 1993
Volume: 
9
Issue: 
6
Abstract: 
Money laundering is going to be a major growth industry in the 1990s and the Asia/Pacific region will figure prominently in that development. The usual perception of money laundering evokes images of exotic Caribbean or flashy European locations that are well-trod and comfortable tourist locations within easy reach to both drug source countries and consumer nations. The Asia/Pacific region encompasses Afghanistan and Pakistan in the west, stretches across India and Indochina and in the east laps along the shores of the Americas…[more]