BEIJING- Chinese Ministry of Public Security said Monday that the nation's police authorities had shut down 500 underground banks since 2002 in its battle against money laundering.
* D2 h! h% g2 a5 a Ten crack-down campaigns have be waged since 2002 when the ministry set up a division dedicated to anti-money laundering, in which over 100 cases involving more than 200 billion yuan (30 billion US dollars) have been handled, the ministry said in a statement.3 J0 Q4 \" Y8 V1 P; C
The ministry has trained more than 400 police officers specialized in handling money laundering cases over the past eight years, said the statement.
. r/ U9 j$ u9 u3 [ ~) K In order to promote international cooperation, China joined the Moscow-based Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism as a founding member state inn October 2004.
0 V" Z' u6 k1 K0 a7 f$ Y In June 2007, China joined another international anti-money laundering organization, the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force on Anti-Money Laundering. |
发表于 2012-8-16 08:12:37
